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IBM

565 articles – decelerating

A $240 million IBM Cloud deal with Together AI marked IBM’s recent push to pair Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure with its enterprise platform.

Who they are

IBM appears in the coverage as an enterprise-technology incumbent extending its cloud, mainframe and quantum-computing franchises into the AI era. Stories connect the company to IBM Cloud, IBM Z and LinuxONE, z/OS, Watson, Red Hat and quantum hardware, while its partnerships place it alongside companies including Apple, Nvidia, Together AI and Vercel.

The recent arc

Recent coverage peaked in 2026 Q3 and shifted toward infrastructure and platform modernization. Reuters reported that IBM and Together AI signed a $240 million multiyear agreement for an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia HGX B300 systems to support open-source models. VentureBeat then reported IBM’s dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE, designed to natively run z/OS workloads and Arm applications.

The tension

The coverage centers on whether IBM can turn its installed enterprise base into an advantage as AI reshapes infrastructure spending. Its cloud buildout with Together AI and Nvidia contrasts with signs of pressure: IBM lowered its 2026 forecast, reported infrastructure revenue down year over year, and saw shares fall after CEO Arvind Krishna said customers were shifting spending to chips. Anthropic’s claims for Claude Code in COBOL exploration and analysis sharpen the question around the value and defensibility of IBM’s legacy-modernization position.

Why it matters

If IBM can combine mainframe-native computing, cloud inference capacity and quantum research into deployable enterprise systems, it may preserve relevance where customers cannot quickly replace core workloads. The countervailing evidence is that the same AI and chip-spending transition can redirect budgets away from IBM’s existing infrastructure, making execution across its partnerships and platform roadmap more consequential than announcements alone.

Related: Watson · Oracle · Apple and IBM partner to develop iOS enterprise apps and cloud service · Shares of quantum computing companies surged Thursday after the US gov · IBM Agrees to Pay Globalfoundries $1.5 Billion to Take Chip Unit

IBM's coverage declined from steady 15-22 articles per quarter in 2015-2017 to single digits through most years, with a resurgence starting in 2023 driven by quantum computing breakthroughs and AI infrastructure positioning. The December 2025 acquisition of Confluent for $11B and quantum networking partnerships with Cisco signal IBM's bet on becoming enterprise AI plumbing rather than a consumer brand. Lou Gerstner's death in December 2025 reminded tech press of IBM's 1990s turnaround, when market value rose from $29B to $168B under his tenure, a scale of transformation that current CEO Arvind Krishna's quantum and hybrid cloud strategy has yet to replicate. The company's biggest coverage moment in the corpus remains the 2018 Red Hat acquisition valued at $34B, which generated 51 related articles and positioned IBM for its current cloud infrastructure play.

IBM has appeared in 565 articles since 2005-10. Coverage peaked in 2024Q2 with 18 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Microsoft, Google, Apple, Watson.

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565
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Velocity
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Acceleration
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velocity change
Sources
198
publications

TEXXR Analysis

Oct 18, 2026
Google’s Willow Cuts Magic-State Errors 40-Fold
Google reports roughly 40-fold lower magic-state errors on Willow. Projections suggest T-state production could consume roughly 90% of a fault-tolerant machine’...
Aug 13, 2026
IBM's $240M Bet Puts Its Name on the Door
IBM’s $240 million agreement with Together AI will put open-model inference on Nvidia HGX B300 systems inside IBM Cloud. It also shows cloud incumbents becoming...
Aug 11, 2026
Nvidia Reaches From AI Routing to a $500B Buildout
Nvidia released a 30B-parameter MoE model claiming up to 4× faster output and an agentic router. Reports that Nvidia, Apollo, BlackRock and others were working ...
Jul 26, 2026
IBM Faces a 20,000× Quantum Integration Test
IBM’s Starling roadmap targets 20,000× today’s quantum compute by 2029. Its planned HRL acquisition, AMD control work and 2030 Cisco network proof map the stack...
Jul 17, 2026
AI Models Multiplied. ASML Raised the Floor
ASML lifted 2026 guidance to €43B–€45B as Kimi K3 and Inkling widened model access, New York constrained data-center permits, and Europe challenged Android defa...

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Coverage Timeline

2026-10-22
Wall Street Journal 9 related

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4%

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2026-10-21
Wall Street Journal 6 related

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4%

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2026-09-29
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Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities

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2026-09-28
Artificial Analysis 1 related

Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities

The Artificial Analysis Cyber Index Alliance brings together industry partners to set a new standard for evaluating how AI models perform on enterprise cyber defense tasks.

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2026-09-09
Scientific American 46 related

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it

A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997

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2026-09-08
Scientific American 43 related

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it

A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997

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2026-08-25
VentureBeat 17 related

IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications

IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades …

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2026-08-24
VentureBeat 10 related

IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications

IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades …

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2026-08-12
Reuters 11 related

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multiyear deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models

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2026-08-11
Reuters 10 related

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multiyear deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models

IBM (IBM.N) and startup Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale artificial intelligence cluster …

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IBM has appeared in 775 tech news articles since October 2005, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include Apple and IBM partner to develop iOS enterprise apps and cloud services, tailor AppleCare... and Shares of quantum computing companies surged Thursday after the US government announced.... Frequently covered alongside Microsoft, Google, Watson, International Business Machines Corp., and Amazon. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise, consumer themes and away from funding, research.

Key Moments

2024Q2developer +21pts; consumer +7pts; research +21pts
2024Q3enterprise -6pts; developer -21pts; funding -10pts
2024Q4enterprise +53pts; safety +25pts; consumer -11pts

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