Artificial intelligence news

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 (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.

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.

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....