Artificial intelligence news

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.

Call for Code Creator David Clark Cause, Founding Partner IBM, Global Impact Partner United Nations Human Rights, and Program Affiliate the Linux Foundation invite developers and problem solvers to participate in the 2025 Call for Code program to create projects and solutions that use AI to help tackle United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

IBM has been working with universities for almost a century. Today, we’re excited to share the new IBM SkillsBuild university strategy to strengthen AI education in universities, helping them...

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2025, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and IBM announced an expanded collaboration to drive enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across edge and cloud devices designed to enable increased immediacy, privacy, reliability, personalization, and reduced cost and energy consumption.

IBM today announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. Together the companies' capabilities will help clients accelerate innovation, strengthen security, and get more value from the cloud.

IBM today debuted the next generation of its Granite large language model (LLM) family, Granite 3.2, in a continued effort to deliver small, efficient, practical enterprise AI for real-world impact.

IBM today is announcing its intent to acquire DataStax, an AI and data solution provider. DataStax's technology will enhance IBM's watsonx portfolio of products accelerating the use of generative AI, helping companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data.

Moving from productivity to performance with agentic AI Today we are introducing our new AI Integration Services to help clients transform end-to-end business processes with agentic AI on their...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its collaboration with Penn State, consistently ranked among the top six percent of the world's universities, to build and deploy MyResource, a student concierge built with watsonx, IBM's portfolio of AI products. The generative AI-powered assistant is meant to streamline details about campus resources and how to seek them when it launches, expected in the fall semester, to the nearly 90,000 Penn State students.

Technologies like Generative AI and AI Agents are poised to change the way we interact with urban environments and tackle economic and environmental challenges. Today, five new AI projects are...

In 2024 IBM signed the AI Seoul Summit’s commitments for AI Frontier Safety, a stride toward safe and trustworthy AI which IBM has long advocated for and pioneered. Today, we’re publishing...

New global research from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) and Palo Alto Networks®, found that surveyed organizations are facing security complexity challenges as they juggle an average of 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors.

e&, a global technology group, has collaborated with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to deploy a pioneering, end-to-end, multi-model Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI governance solution. Announced today at the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos, this collaboration intends to enhance e&'s AI governance framework to promote compliance, oversight, and ethical practices across its growing AI ecosystem, reinforcing e&'s commitment to establishing robust governance, risk management, and regulatory oversight across its AI usage.

One of the biggest challenges of realizing ROI from AI is stickiness — making it easy to use, embedded in the natural flow of how people work, and trusted by its users. 64% of CEOs say success...

IBM and L'Oréal, the world's leading beauty company, announced a collaboration to leverage IBM's generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology and expertise to uncover new insights in cosmetic formulation data, facilitating L'Oréal's use of sustainable raw materials, for energy and material waste reductions.

CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, today announced its plans to deliver one of the first NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip-enabled AI supercomputers to IBM (NYSE: IBM), equipped with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.

Developers across industries have seen their job descriptions expand to include a common phrase: “generative AI.” As enterprises rush to adopt the technology, they are tasking their developers...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP SE announced the upcoming release of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, designed to make it the fastest and easiest path for IBM Power customers to accelerate their ERP transformation.

A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value found that surveyed retail and consumer product executives are dramatically shifting their focus toward artificial intelligence (AI), with responses indicating that participants project spending outside of traditional IT operations could surge by 52% in the next year.

There’s no question AI was the dominant topic of 2024. Almost every enterprise – large and small – was inspired by the promise of what Generative AI could do to modernize processes, create new revenue streams and transform business models. The enormous potential of this game-changing technology stoked imagination and fueled countless AI projects.

Today, in alignment with United Nations Human Rights Day, Call for Code, the largest tech-for-good initiative of its kind driven by creator David Clark Cause, Founding Partner IBM (NYSE: IBM), Charitable Partner United Nations Human Rights, and Program Affiliate the Linux Foundation announced the winners of the annual Call for Code Global Challenge.

As we approach the end of a seemingly nonstop year of innovation, scandal and wonderment in AI, the technology’s ethics and governance has never been more important—or uncertain.

Wasabi Technologies today announced it is expanding their data management offerings for customers with the addition of IBM (NYSE: IBM) Cloud’s London data center to Wasabi’s storage regions. Wasabi’s ability to leverage IBM’s Multizone Region (MZR) addresses the need to help joint customers address their evolving regulatory requirements and leverage AI and other emerging technologies with a secured, enterprise cloud platform.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is critical to enabling action at the speed of the digital battlespace – which is faster than a human's ability to process and act on multiple sources incoming data....

During AWS re:Invent, IBM and AWS will unveil new milestones in our collaboration to help businesses adopt responsible AI. Together, we are combining our strengths to ensure that organizations can...

IBM announced Autonomous Security for Cloud (ASC), an AI-powered solution from IBM Consulting designed to automate cloud security management and decision-making to help mitigate risk for organizations accelerating their cloud journey on Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

At the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) announce new, publicly available artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions to inform more sustainable urban development for cities and communities around the world, enabling decision-makers and policymakers to map urbanization and identify energy and infrastructure needs for communities in developing regions.

Given the rate and pace of AI adoption, the influx of data associated with AI will fuel tremendous business innovations, but requires strategic considerations on where data resides, compute...

Today, business leaders understand AI reflects both a challenge and an opportunity. AI is accelerating the discovery of lifesaving drugs and sustainable materials, optimizing supply chains and mining efforts, and supporting the transition to more renewable, decentralized electric grids. Yet AI adoption, like other major transformations, comes with new environmental challenges that force businesses to reevaluate and adapt their strategies.

We’re excited to announce that IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Custom Software Development Services. We feel this recognition highlights our ongoing...

AI and biodiversity both thrive on complexity. For AI, massive amounts of data fuel machine learning models, helping them to recognize patterns, make predictions and solve problems. In most cases, the richer and more diverse the data, the smarter and more adaptive AI becomes.