Artificial intelligence news

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and UFC, the world's premier mixed martial arts organization, today announced the next phase of their technological evolution with the launch of In-Fight Insights, an AI-driven live alert platform that monitors and reports in real time when notable milestones, streaks and records occur during UFC events. It is slated to debut at UFC® 322: DELLA MADDALENA vs. MAKHACHEV, which takes place at New York's Madison Square Garden this Saturday, November 15.

A new global study by the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value reveals enterprise data strategies are rapidly evolving as organizations race to scale AI across their business. The findings suggest that while Chief Data Officers (CDOs) are at the helm of this transformation, many say their data is still not ready to unlock AI's full potential.

IBM and Unipol Assicurazioni, one of Europe’s largest insurance groups and leader in Italy in the non-life sector, are renewing their collaboration to continue the Company's digital transformation journey they embarked on over a year ago. This journey, starting with the adoption of hybrid cloud by design, is evolving towards strengthening the IT infrastructure with the new z17 technology and expanding AI capabilities directly onto production mainframe data.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Web Summit today unveiled a new global sports-tech competition proposal. The Sports Tech Startup Challenge will spotlight startups using AI to revolutionize sports — from athlete performance and stadium operations to fan engagement — with regional events planned for Qatar, Vancouver, and Rio, culminating with global winners being selected during Web Summit Lisbon 2026. Participation will be subject to local laws and official rules to be published before each regional competition.

Agassi Sports Entertainment (ASE) Corp. (OTC PINK: AASP) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announce a multi-year collaboration to transform the global racquet sports landscape through next generation artificial intelligence and digital innovation. They have signed a partnership agreement to bring together IBM’s technology and expertise with ASE’s vision for an innovative digital community across racquet sports.

Today, IBM Consulting is excited to announce the opening of the inaugural Innovation Hub powered by Red Hat at IBM’s Client Innovation Center in Bengaluru, India. Clients across the globe can now experience the benefits of Red Hat technologies at the new Innovation Hub, designed to provide a state-of-the-art experience to help our mutual clients accelerate their enterprise transformation through hybrid cloud and AI.

IBM today announced that IBM Fusion has delivered one of the industry's first implementations of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA Networking and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.

IBM technology will power AI-driven solutions designed to modernize supply chains by reducing costs and expanding access to sustainable infrastructure. Five organizations have been selected to...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the general availability of the IBM Defense Model, a purpose-built AI model designed to deliver reliable intelligence for defense and national security. Developed together with Janes, a leading provider of open-source defense intelligence, the IBM Defense Model combines IBM's enterprise-grade AI technology with Janes domain-specific data to empower agencies to make decisions with speed, precision and confidence in secured, mission-critical environments.

A new study from IBM (NYSE: IBM) reveals enterprises across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are already reporting significant productivity gains from using AI, with many expecting returns on their investments (ROI) within the next year. However, the findings suggest small to medium sized enterprises (SME) and public sector organizations are falling behind larger, private sector firms in boosting productivity with AI.

IBM and Groq today announced a strategic go-to-market and technology partnership designed to give clients immediate access to Groq's inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate – providing clients high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate and enhance RedHat open source vLLM technology with Groq's LPU architecture. IBM Granite models are also planned to be supported on GroqCloud for IBM clients.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new AI agents now available on the Oracle Fusion Applications AI Agent Marketplace. The three new agents are designed to help Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications customers achieve new levels of operational efficiency. In addition, IBM plans to release complementary agents for Oracle customers built with IBM watsonx Orchestrate for HR and supply chain to help clients across industries transform businesses processes.

The future of the Agentic Enterprise will be powered by integrated data. That’s why IBM’s collaboration with Salesforce is more powerful than ever, working together to make that future a...

Ransomware, insider threats, and data exfiltration events are growing both in frequency and sophistication. Traditional models where backups are stored on-prem—often on the same network as the production environments they are protecting—present an easy opportunity for cyber-attacks to disable entire organizations. When backup copies remain in the same environment as production data, attackers can encrypt or delete them, eliminating recovery options.

S&P Global and IBM today announced they are partnering to embed IBM's watsonx Orchestrate agentic framework into S&P Global’s suite of offerings, starting with supply chain management. This collaboration aims to equip businesses with AI-powered tools to help tackle some of the biggest challenges in today’s global supply chain.

Designed to work the way you do, Project Bob adapts to your workflow from design to deployment. Whether you’re modernizing legacy systems or building something entirely new, Bob helps you ship quality code faster.

As part of IBM z17, the IBM Spyre Accelerator paired with the Telum II processor are set to transform the way businesses leverage AI in their organizations. These groundbreaking capabilities are...

Today, at TechXchange 2025, IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) annual event for developers and technologists, the company unveiled new and upcoming product capabilities designed to help enterprises move beyond AI experimentation and unlock productivity gains across development, operations and business workflows. Drawing thousands of attendees from around the world, TechXchange serves as a launchpad for IBM’s latest advancements in agentic AI, hybrid cloud, quantum computing and intelligent infrastructure.

IBM is redefining how users engage with IBM Z® with the launch of new agentic AI capabilities that enhance productivity, simplify operations and help users work in a more natural, goal-driven...

IBM is introducing a new release of watsonx Assistant for Z that delivers an agentic AI framework for IBM Z. This version marks the beginning of a journey to further simplify and transform how...

Orchestrating the next wave of enterprise AI with five new capabilities in IBM watsonx Orchestrate. Organizations across industries are moving beyond experimentation and into the era of agentic...

IBM and Anthropic today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Anthropic’s Claude, one of the world’s most powerful family of large language models (LLMs), into IBM’s software portfolio to deliver measurable productivity gains, while building security, governance, and cost controls directly into the lifecycle of software development.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the upcoming general availability of the IBM Spyre Accelerator, an AI accelerator enabling low-latency inferencing to support generative and agentic AI use cases while prioritizing the security and resilience of core workloads.

Compliance has shifted from a periodic requirement to a continuous expectation. Enterprises must now demonstrate trustworthiness every day, not just during annual audits. At the same time,...

IBM ELM is preparing to launch AI agents to help engineering teams achieve greater speed, clarity and confidence. Engineering teams are undergoing far-reaching digital transformation in complex...

Enterprises today are under pressure to accelerate innovation while also showing tangible returns on AI investments. Yet many organizations struggle to integrate diverse systems, APIs, and data...

API Connect is our agentic, end-to-end API management platform that helps teams create, manage, secure and socialize APIs across hybrid environments, with AI assisting along the lifecycle....

IBM is enhancing its observability capabilities to help IT operations teams ensure optimal performance, resilience and spend across complex environments. Rising costs, escalating cyber risks,...

IBM is excited to announce the launch of watsonx.data developer edition, a free desktop application that makes it easier than ever for developers and data engineers to explore, prototype and learn...

At IBM TechXchange conference in Orlando, IBM announced the general availability of IBM Instana GenAI Observability, a breakthrough in observability designed for the era of generative AI. This...

Risk and compliance leaders, security teams and AI owners often ask these two questions: “Can I see exactly what my AI agents are doing in production?” “Can I get a unified view of my AI...

Netezza has taken a major leap forward in its modernization journey by introducing Native Cloud Object Storage support directly within the engine. This powerful new capability allows users to...

The launch of Granite 4.0 initiates a new era for IBM’s family of enterprise-ready large language models, leveraging novel architectural advancements to double down on small, efficient language models that provide competitive performance at reduced costs and latency. The Granite 4.0 models were developed with a particular emphasis on essential tasks for agentic workflows, both in standalone deployments and as cost-efficient building blocks in complex systems alongside larger reasoning models.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a collaboration to deliver advanced AI infrastructure to Zyphra, an open-source AI research and product company based in San Francisco, California. Under a multi-year agreement between IBM and Zyphra, IBM is positioned to deliver a large cluster of AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs on IBM Cloud for Zyphra to use for training frontier multimodal foundation models. This collaboration is expected to deliver among the largest advanced generative AI training capabilities to date powered by an AMD stack running on IBM Cloud.

Today, IBM is unveiling IBM Network Intelligence, a network-native AI solution that addresses the escalating complexity of modern telecommunications and enterprise networks. Developed in...

Today at HashiConf 2025, the 10th global conference hosted by HashiCorp and its first as an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, the company introduced a series of Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle innovations, and a preview of Project infragraph — a new strategic investment for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) that lays the groundwork for agentic infrastructure.

IBM and BharatGen today announced a strategic collaboration to advance the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India powered by BharatGen’s sovereign multimodal and Large Language Models (LLMs) tailored to India’s unique linguistic and cultural landscape.

IBM today released its Cost of a Data Breach Report, which revealed AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance.

IBM z/OS has been the foundation for enterprises that need unmatched reliability, scalability and security. In 2025, IBM is building upon this strong foundation with z/OS 3.2, the next release of the IBM flagship mainframe operating system, designed to unlock the value of the new IBM z17. This latest version of z/OS is engineered to allow clients to integrate their applications and data into hybrid cloud environments, while leveraging the strengths of the mainframe to support today’s AI-driven workloads.

Nedgia, the gas distributor of the Naturgy Group, has transformed its customer service model through a leading digital evolution project that uses generative artificial intelligence agents. IBM (NYSE: IBM) Consulting designed and implemented the project, creating an innovative contact center supported by virtual agents.

Elior Group, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announce their association with the creation of an “agentic AI & Data Factory” to serve Elior Group's innovation, digital transformation, and improved operational performance.

Today, IBM is announcing that Deutsche Telekom, one of the world's leading providers of telecommunications and IT services, serving millions of residential and business customers, will implement the AI-powered solution IBM Concert, enabling intelligent automation in patch management and the orchestration of security-related activities.

At IBM, we’re embedding AI across the Maximo Application Suite through powerful AI capabilities that automate tasks, streamline workflows and enhance decision-making. Not just an intelligent...

I am excited to announce that IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) version 9.1 is now generally available. This release brings powerful new capabilities to MAS, designed to empower clients with the technology they need to deploy end-to-end asset lifecycle management in the data and AI era.

Today, as enterprises scale AI agents across their organizations, IBM is announcing the industry's first software to bring AI security and AI governance teams together and provide a unified view of enterprises' risk posture.

Some guests come for the strawberries and cream and Pimm’s, the signature Wimbledon cocktail dressed with strawberries, cucumber and mint. Others come hoping to spot Kate, Princess of Wales, in...

The All England Lawn Tennis Club and IBM today announced new and enhanced AI-powered digital experiences coming to The Championships, Wimbledon 2025. Making its debut is 'Match Chat', an interactive AI assistant that can answer fans' questions during live singles matches. The 'Likelihood to Win' tool is also being enhanced, offering fans a projected win percentage that can change throughout each game.

A new global study by the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals that surveyed CMOs widely acknowledge the strategic importance of AI, but face an execution gap – largely due to fragmented systems – as they adapt to a significant role shift.

Today, IBM is announcing the general availability of AskIAM, a generative AI capability within the IBM Consulting Advantage delivery platform, purpose-built to help clients modernize their...

IBM is fully committed to leading this new era. In fact, our commitment to the acceleration of SaaS is definitively seen through our acquisitions, our software offerings, and our partner resources. Our strategic acquisitions of Apptio and HashiCorp, combined with the strength of Red Hat and watsonx, have created a powerful ecosystem of hybrid cloud and AI-driven SaaS solutions. These platforms enable enterprises to integrate, automate, and secure complex operations across diverse environments — key for building future-proof, cloud-native applications.

This month IBM is radically simplifying the enterprise data stack, introducing software that unifies, governs, and activates the unstructured enterprise data necessary to power AI agents and other advanced AI applications.

IBM today announced watsonx AI Labs, a new, developer-first innovation hub in New York City, designed to supercharge AI builders and accelerate AI adoption at scale. watsonx AI Labs connects IBM's enterprise resources and expertise with the next generation of AI developers in order to build breakthrough AI applications for business.

IBM and Roche used their collective innovation power and have developed an AI-enabled solution to ease the daily diabetes management: Roche’s Accu-Chek® SmartGuide Predict app. This solution underpins the importance of cross-industry collaboration and teamwork to support people with diabetes in their daily lives and the provision of healthcare.

Deutsche Bank and IBM today announced a continuation of their partnership in the form of a strategic agreement that grants Deutsche Bank further access to IBM's comprehensive suite of software solutions.

Finanz Informatik (FI) – the central IT service provider and digitalization partner of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe – and IBM have extended their successful collaboration with the signing of a new contract.

IBM is excited to expand the capabilities of IBM Consulting Advantage with the Adobe Assistant Pack—designed to help Adobe clients accelerate value realization and maximize ROI. IBM Consulting...

AI is revolutionizing the way developers write and manage code. In fact, Gartner says 75% of enterprise software engineers will use AI code assistants by 2028. This rapid adoption underscores the...

Building on our existing IBM watsonx.ai catalogue of Mistral models, Mistral Medium 3 is now available. Built to meet the enterprise need for high accuracy results coupled with cost-effective...

In an era of constant technological evolution, strategic partnerships are key to driving meaningful innovation. That’s why GitLab and IBM are bringing their DevSecOps solutions together,...

Today, we’re excited to announce that IBM MRO Inventory Optimization has become IBM Maximo Inventory Optimization, and is now available in an Essentials version. IBM Maximo Inventory...

Today, IBM is unveiling groundbreaking advancements within IBM Turbonomic, designed to help organizations enhance their application performance and efficiency posture. IBM Turbonomic now...

Global organizations rely on IBM i to run business-critical applications due to its reliability, performance and low cost of ownership. In recent years, modernizing IBM i apps has become essential...

Today, during IBM’s Think 2025 conference in Boston, Governor Maura Healey announced major updates on the state’s effort to grow the artificial intelligence ecosystem in Massachusetts through the Massachusetts AI Hub. The Governor announced a $31 million state grant to expand access to sustainable high-performance computing that is necessary for AI innovation, the hiring of the first director of the AI Hub, and the exploration of a new partnership between the AI Hub, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat to create a startup accelerator program for entrepreneurs to develop AI technologies and build cutting-edge AI businesses.

Today at THINK, IBM API Connect is announcing the new API Agent—built to accelerate your API journey with greater efficiency, speed, and confidence. AI is no longer just a futuristic concept;...

Lumen Technologies and IBM today announced a new collaboration to develop enterprise-grade AI solutions at the edge—integrating watsonx, IBM's portfolio of AI products, with Lumen's Edge Cloud infrastructure and network. Together, Lumen and IBM aim to bring powerful, real-time AI inferencing closer to where data is generated, helping companies overcome cost, latency, and security barriers as they scale AI adoption and enhance customer experiences.

Today at the company’s annual THINK event, IBM is unveiling new hybrid technologies that break down the longstanding barriers to scaling enterprise AI – enabling businesses to build and deploy AI agents with their own enterprise data.

A new global study by the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value found that surveyed CEOs are committed to advancing AI solutions across their organization even as they face challenges from accelerating technology adoption.

IBM is working with Oracle to bring the power of watsonx, IBM’s flagship portfolio of AI products, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Leveraging OCI’s native AI services, the latest milestone in IBM’s technology partnership with Oracle is designed to fuel a new era of multi-agentic, AI-driven productivity and efficiency across the enterprise.

AI is quickly moving beyond a tool to simply enhance productivity, ushering in a new era defined by autonomous, reasoning agents. AWS and IBM are making it easier for customers to adopt these...

Enterprise data is a crucial source of intelligence for AI models and agents to learn from. For decades, businesses have entrusted IBM Z mainframes, renowned for their reliability and security, to...

At IBM, we’ve witnessed how a hybrid cloud approach can significantly support AI, security and compliance for global enterprises by offering flexibility, control and scalability across different...

At Think this week, IBM is radically simplifying the data-for-AI stack. IBM is previewing the major evolution of watsonx.data, which can help organizations make their data AI-ready and provide an...

Emerging AI agents represent a fundamental tipping point in the AI revolution, shifting from AI that can chat with you, to AI that can do work for you—with unprecedented autonomy. For decades,...

Today at IBM Think 2025, we are announcing IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration, which reimagines integration for the AI era with a unified experience across all integration scenarios. Bringing...

Today, we’re excited to announce our answer to these challenges: Db2 Intelligence Center, an AI-powered database management platform designed specifically for Db2 database administrators and IT professionals managing databases.

Kubernetes has become the backbone of application changes and deployment. Enterprises invest in Kubernetes to build applications that are scalable with high deployment frequency to help meet the dynamic needs of the business.

We’re excited to announce the latest release of IBM Db2 12.1.2, packed with new features designed to unlock the full potential of your data and drive the next generation of AI and cloud applications. With advancements in security, scalability and support for cutting-edge workloads, Db2 continues to be a powerful, flexible database solution for businesses across industries.

IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP today introduced a newly reimagined mobile app experience designed to bring the passionate global fanbase of nearly 400 million Tifosi closer than ever to cars, drivers and races they love.

Box, Inc., the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, and IBM today announced they are partnering to help organizations accelerate the adoption of enterprise-level AI for content-driven workflows using IBM watsonx and Box AI.

IBM today announced the establishment of a new Microsoft Practice within IBM Consulting. This announcement builds upon a multi-year partnership aimed to deliver stronger and more measurable business outcomes for clients who are navigating complex AI, cloud, and security transformations.

IBM today introduced new agentic and automation capabilities to its managed detection and response service offerings to help enable autonomous security operations and predictive threat intelligence for clients.

IBM today released the 2025 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index highlighting that cybercriminals continued to pivot to stealthier tactics, with lower-profile credential theft spiking, while ransomware attacks on enterprises declined.

Enterprises are drowning in complexity, managing an average of 1,000+ apps with less than 30 percent of them integrated. According to a 2024 IDC article1, 1 billion new logical applications are...

IBM announced the IBM z17, the next generation of the company's iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum® II processor, IBM z17 expands the system's capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads.

IBM is excited to announce the addition Meta’s latest generation of open models, Llama 4, to watsonx.ai. Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first mixture of experts (MoE) models released by Meta, provide frontier multimodal performance, high speeds, low cost, and industry leading context length.

IBM announced it has acquired Hakkoda Inc., a leading global data and AI consultancy. Hakkoda will expand IBM Consulting's data transformation services portfolio, adding specialized data platform expertise to help clients get their data ready to fuel AI-powered business operations.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Masters Tournament today announced a series of digital fan features returning to the award-winning Masters app and Masters.com ahead of this year's Tournament. The watsonx AI-powered capabilities –

IBM and Tokyo Electron (TEL) announced an extension of their agreement for the joint research and development of advanced semiconductor technologies. The new 5-year agreement will focus on the continued advancement of technology for next-generation semiconductor nodes and architectures to power the age of generative AI.

IBM is contributing 3 open-source projects—Docling, Data Prep Kit and BeeAI—to the Linux Foundation. This move signals not only the potential growth of these projects but also IBM’s ongoing...

IBM announced new collaborations with NVIDIA, including planned new integrations based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design to help enterprises more effectively put their data to work to help build, scale and manage generative AI workloads and agentic AI applications. As part of today's news, IBM is planning to launch a content-aware storage capability for its hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, IBM Fusion; intends to expand its watsonx integrations; and is introducing new IBM Consulting capabilities with NVIDIA to help drive AI innovation across the enterprise.

With the rise of AI, ever-evolving customer needs, and seemingly endless supply chain disruptions, being in the retail business can be challenging. Luckily, technology has the potential to provide...

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada announces an innovative AI-powered tool designed to transform the customer experience for the new Mitsubishi Outlander 2025. "The Intelligent Companion," which launched on March 5, 2025, was created in collaboration with WongDoody (an Infosys company and IBM ecosystem partner) and leverages the IBM watsonx portfolio of AI products.