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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) announced general availability of three IBM Z software tools to enhance security and data operations on critical infrastructure. New offerings include IBM zSecure Detection for threat monitoring on z/OS, IBM zSecure Secret Manager for automated certificate management, and IBM Z Database Assistant using agentic AI to optimize DBA tasks.
IBM highlights IBM Z’s resiliency, citing 99.999999% uptime and average annual downtime under a third of a second, and positions these tools to address evolving cybersecurity and AI-driven workloads.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) released a global study on AI sovereignty and enterprise risk. Among 1,000 executives, 71% say switching their primary AI vendor or model is difficult and 68% struggle with data residency and sovereignty rules. 91% do not fully understand dependencies across AI vendors, models and infrastructure, after averaging six AI‑related disruptions in two years. 81% say a seven‑day vendor outage would cause severe or critical disruption. Organizations with the most advanced AI control capabilities protect 55% more operating profit from AI‑driven disruptions, yet only 7% reach this level. 72% would accept a 20% cost increase to maintain AI vendors if it improved strategic flexibility.
Apptio, an IBM company (NYSE: IBM), introduced a preview of Conversational Insights, an AI-powered natural language interface that surfaces data-backed insights on technology spend and value. The release also adds IBM Apptio Data Center TCO, Cloudability Intelligent Forecasting, and Cloudability Advanced Containers to strengthen a unified Financial Intelligence Layer for hybrid IT and AI investments.
Conversational Insights is in preview now and expected to be generally available in 2026; Cloudability Intelligent Forecasting and Data Center TCO are scheduled for GA in Q2 2026.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) announced a multi-year collaboration to tackle AI-ready data and legacy system challenges. The effort combines IBM’s AI, data and automation with the ServiceNow AI Platform to modernize applications, strengthen enterprise data governance and enable more autonomous IT operations.
Joint solutions for application modernization, data governance and infrastructure operations are expected in the second half of 2026.
Casey’s (Nasdaq: CASY) appointed Stanley J. Sutula III, Colgate-Palmolive’s CFO, to its Board of Directors. Sutula brings over 35 years of experience in corporate finance, planning, tax, strategy and risk management.
His addition temporarily raises the Board to 12 directors, as Cara Heiden plans to retire effective September 2, 2026.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) released a global IBM Institute for Business Value study on AI governance and control. Surveying 2,000 tech CxOs, it finds most CIOs and CTOs are accountable for AI systems they do not fully control, as AI adoption, spending, and related risks scale faster than governance.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership creating a new Google Cloud practice within IBM Consulting to help organizations scale AI and modernize core systems.
The practice leverages IBM Consulting Advantage and Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and is described as a multi-billion-dollar services opportunity.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) launched the global AI Builders Challenge, giving university students hands-on experience with IBM Bob, its AI-powered development partner. The program expands free IBM Bob access to 20,000 post‑secondary institutions worldwide through IBM SkillsBuild.
The Challenge offers real-world, theme-based software projects, mentorship, and a $15,000 prize pool, including a $5,000 Grand Prize and an invitation to IBM TechXchange for the top project.
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.