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International Business Machines Corporation develops enterprise technology across software, consulting, hardware, hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. News from IBM centers on AI platforms and services, including watsonx, IBM Enterprise Advantage, IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM Sovereign Core, watsonx Orchestrate and Red Hat technologies for hybrid and regulated environments.
Recurring updates also cover IBM Consulting client work, industry and cloud collaborations, research milestones in quantum-centric supercomputing, AI-enabled application experiences, and IBM Institute for Business Value studies on enterprise adoption and governance of AI.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) plans to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over the next five years. Spending will cover R&D, manufacturing, capex, ecosystem partnerships and M&A, supporting a roadmap toward IBM Quantum Starling, a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer targeted for 2029.
IBM reports operating over 90 quantum systems worldwide, a network of 340+ members, and more than $1.1 billion in quantum-related contracts since 2017. The company will also contribute $1 billion in cash to Anderon, described as the first pure-play quantum wafer foundry in the U.S.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat launched Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative to secure open source software using frontier AI and more than 20,000 engineers. The project creates a trusted open source security clearinghouse, offering AI-driven vulnerability detection, validated patches, and lifecycle management via commercial subscriptions for enterprises.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Abertis signed a five-year global agreement to modernize Abertis’s technology infrastructure using SAP S/4HANA.
The alliance targets five subsidiaries across Spain, France, the UK, Chile and Puerto Rico, aiming to improve scalability, reliability, advanced analytics and end-user digital experiences via unified, high-volume transaction systems and new web and mobile tools.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the U.S. Department of Commerce signed a Letter of Intent to create Anderon, America’s first pure-play quantum chip foundry in Albany, New York.
The project is backed by a proposed $1 billion CHIPS incentive and $1 billion IBM cash investment.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced an expanded AI-era security portfolio and its partnership with Anthropic in Project Glasswing, an initiative to protect critical software infrastructure. IBM is applying its security expertise to counter AI-powered attacks using tools like IBM Concert, Concert Secure Coder, IBM Autonomous Security, IBM Consulting services, and open-source leadership with Red Hat to identify, remediate, and share vulnerability fixes across industries.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) introduced a new AI delivery model called Forward Deployed Units (FDUs), run through IBM Consulting. FDUs are small, senior pods combining human experts and AI agents to design, build and operate enterprise AI systems.
IBM reports FDUs are already working with global clients and scaling across regions, powered by the IBM Consulting Advantage platform for reusable assets, agents and governance.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced two managed services on IBM Cloud: Red Hat AI Inference and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service. The offerings aim to help enterprises move AI from pilot to production and migrate VM workloads to Kubernetes-based, security-focused, hybrid cloud environments.
Red Hat AI Inference offers fully managed, OpenAI-compatible, real-time model serving with governance. The virtualization service provides managed lifecycle, migration tooling, and a path to containerization. Red Hat AI Inference will be generally available May 22, 2026; the virtualization service is in limited availability, with general availability expected June 2026.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced updates to IBM Enterprise Advantage and IBM Consulting Advantage at Think 2026 to accelerate hybrid-AI deployments across regulated environments.
Key points: Context Studio is available to create data‑grounded AI agents; Process Studio is coming soon; client results include analysis of 1,400 procedures and a projected >25% operating cost reduction in 18 months. IBM also highlighted FedRAMP availability on AWS GovCloud and expanded SAP Agent2Agent interoperability.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Aramco announced an intended collaboration on May 5, 2026 to explore AI, agentic AI, automation, material science and other industrial applications.
The effort seeks to combine IBM's enterprise platforms and research with Aramco's industrial scale and data assets to develop practical, mission-critical solutions. The collaboration is subject to definitive agreements and may change.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced general availability of IBM Sovereign Core on May 5, 2026, a software platform to operationalize digital sovereignty across hybrid environments.
The platform combines a customer-operated control plane, in-boundary identity and encryption, continuous compliance monitoring, preloaded regulatory frameworks, governed AI execution, and an open modular architecture with partner integrations.