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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has been selected for Stage B, the second of three stages of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative led by DARPA, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Today, the United States Department of Energy (DoE) announced the continued funding of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRCs). We applaud the DoE for continuing to...

The Basque Government and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the first IBM Quantum System Two in Europe at the IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center in San Sebastián. The installation of this system marks a milestone in the partnership between the two parties, which began in 2023 within the framework of the BasQ – Basque Quantum initiative, promoted by the Basque Government to help make Euskadi an international hub for quantum technologies.

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.

Today, IBM and AMD announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing.

IBM and RIKEN, a national research laboratory in Japan, today unveiled the first IBM Quantum System Two ever to be deployed outside of the United States and beyond an IBM Quantum Data Center.

Today, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and IBM announced plans to deploy the latest 156-qubit IBM Heron* quantum processing unit (QPU), which will be operational in the IBM Quantum System One administered by UTokyo for the members of the Quantum Innovation Initiative (QII) Consortium. The IBM Heron QPU, which features a tunable-coupler architecture, delivers a significantly higher performance than the processor previously installed in 2023.

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 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.

The Basque Government, and IBM today announced plans to install Europe's first IBM Quantum System Two at the IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center on Ikerbasque Foundation's main campus in San Sebastian, Spain (Gipuzkoa, Spain).

Vodafone and IBM announced a collaboration aimed at protecting customers and their data from future risks related to quantum computers when browsing the Internet on their smartphones.

Telefónica Tech, the digital business unit of the Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica, and IBM, a pioneer in quantum-safe cryptography, today announced a collaboration agreement to develop and deliver security solutions that address security challenges posed by future cryptographically relevant quantum computers.

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.

Today at its inaugural IBM Quantum Developer Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced quantum hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on IBM quantum computers with record levels of scale, speed, and accuracy.

Alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, senior European government officials and European-based global enterprises, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the first IBM Quantum Data Center located outside of the United States. It is the company's second quantum data center in the world and marks a significant expansion of its fleet of advanced, utility-scale quantum systems available to global users via the cloud.

The addition of IBM as a new partner in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, has been approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs.

Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, and multinational technology company IBM, today announced a joint development partnership aimed at establishing mass production technologies for chiplet packages. Through this agreement, Rapidus will receive packaging technology from IBM for high-performance semiconductors, and the two companies will collaborate with the aim to further innovate in this space.

IBM today announced the evolution and expansion of Qiskit, its globally adopted quantum software. Launched in 2017, Qiskit, as a software development kit (SDK) is an open-source tool that has allowed over 550,000 users to build and run quantum circuits on IBM’s quantum hardware systems, resulting in the execution of over 3 trillion quantum circuits to date.

Agreement outlines intent to research and develop solutions to new challenges related to processing performance, power consumption, and design complexity

Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced an agreement with RIKEN, a Japanese national research laboratory, to deploy IBM’s next-generation quantum computer architecture and best-performing quantum processor at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. It will be the only instance of a quantum computer co-located with the supercomputer Fugaku.

Five leading technology companies today called for urgent action from policymakers to stimulate Europe’s digital competitiveness and ensure that it remains on the priority list for the incoming European Commission.

Now online, the IBM quantum system will expand the longstanding RPI and IBM partnership to accelerate quantum computing research, workforce development, and education in New York TROY, N.Y., April...

POST MEETING I was pleased to meet today with President Biden and senior members of his team to discuss the trajectory of the U.S. economy. The bipartisan, pro-investment policies launched by the...

Dario Gil discusses how emerging technologies such as generative AI and quantum computing will create opportunities for the banking industry and what...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Agyla SAS, a leading cloud professional services firm in France, to expand IBM Consulting’s localized cloud expertise for...

We are increasingly seeing businesses embrace data-intensive workloads such as high performance computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive innovation on their hybrid,...

CAMBRIDGE, MA and ARMONK, NY / April 20, 2023 / Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxONE 4, expanding their capabilities to a broader range of data center environments.

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Technology spending is expected to remain steady in the coming year, despite ongoing concerns about the global economy. That’s the theme that emerged from a recent survey that IBM commissioned...

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Earlier today, I had the honor of welcoming U.S. President Joe Biden and other distinguished guests at our site in Poughkeepsie, New York. This was an exciting day for IBM and a unique opportunity...

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The public and private sectors must work together to speed innovation and fix supply chains for critical technologies. There is an old saying: "If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to...

In Gartner’s recent 2021 “Vendor Rating: IBM”1 report, and we are thrilled to have received a Strong rating for Technology/Methodology and an overall Positive rating. IBM also received a...

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a place you’d like to escape to. When given that task, many people imagine somewhere next to the ocean. It’s where we spend our holidays, where we...

I had the honor of testifying today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation at its hearing on Implementing Supply Chain Resiliency. Especially against the backdrop...

When one user applied the framework to analyze and optimize approximately 100,000 pipelines for training machine learning models, CodeFlare cut the time it took to execute each pipeline from 4 hours to 15 minutes

IBM and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) announced the launch of the IBM-IISc Hybrid Cloud lab to advance research in hybrid cloud technologies and drive breakthrough innovations in this area.

Ocean research non-profit ProMare and IBM have announced the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS400) is now in international waters as it attempts to cross the Atlantic ocean and reach the United States.

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and IBM are celebrating the successful start of their four year quantum collaboration with a 90 minutes hybrid event for politicians, SMEs, clients, partners, and media.

"Software is eating the world,” US entrepreneur Marc Andreessen famously wrote in 2011. Fast-forward to today – software is in financial services and healthcare, smartphones and smart homes. Even cars now sport over 100 million lines of code.

IBM and Intel announced an important research collaboration to advance next-generation logic and packaging technologies. This collaboration aims to accelerate semiconductor manufacturing...