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IBM announced today its new Cloud Multizone Region (MZR) in Montreal, Quebec which will be designed to help clients address their evolving regulatory requirements and leverage technology such as Generative AI with a secured, enterprise cloud platform. Building on the opening of IBM Cloud’s Toronto MZR in 2021 and existing data centers in Montreal, the opening of the new Montreal MZR is planned for the first half of 2025. IBM’s expanded presence in Canada is expected to help clients throughout the country manage their emerging and existing regulatory demands – including geographic requirements around sovereignty – while driving innovation.

Strategic collaboration will strengthen Spain's open and ethical AI initiatives to stimulate economic and technical efforts MADRID, April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The President of the Government,...

Cisco and a group of eight leading companies including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM (NYSE: IBM) , Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP as well as six advisors today announced the launch of the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to be impacted by AI. The Consortium is catalyzed by the work of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council’s (TTC) Talent for Growth Task Force, with the goal of exploring AI’s impact on ICT job roles, enabling workers to find and access relevant training programs, and connecting businesses to skilled and job-ready workers.

Last year, IBM Consulting and Microsoft collaborated with client teams to address real-world business challenges using Azure OpenAI Service in our first IBM-Microsoft Hackathon. The results showed just how transformative this technology can be.

In 2023, we announced IBM Consulting Azure OpenAI Service offering, marking a milestone in our collaboration with Microsoft. Today, we share our collaboration with the opening of the IBM-Microsoft Experience Zone in Bangalore, India.

Less than half of executives say their organizations have identified specific innovation use cases for generative AI, according to a recent IBM Institute for Business Value study. For enterprises...

We are living in a watershed moment for AI: the European Parliament has just voted on the EU AI Act, which will regulate and govern the use and implications of this technology. In turn, governments and enterprises are getting ready to set their own standards around AI. AI featured in the G7 Ministerial Meeting in Verona, Italy, and in conversations happening in parallel in the Business Federations gatherings, or B7. I had the opportunity to bring IBM’s perspective to these industry discussions.

SXSW EDU -- Usher's New Look (UNL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration to provide free career readiness training through IBM SkillsBuild.

Deepfakes – realistic AI-generated audio, video, or images that can recreate a person's likeness – are one of the most pressing challenges posed by generative AI, given the potential for bad actors to use it to undermine democracy, exploit artists and performers, and harass and harm everyday people.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of the popular open-source Mixtral-8x7B large language model (LLM), developed by Mistral AI, on its watsonx AI and data platform, as it continues to expand capabilities to help clients innovate with IBM's own foundation models and those from a range of open-source providers.