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IBM

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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.

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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Velocity
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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’...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...

Coverage Timeline

2026-06-25
New York Times 48 related

IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a “nanostack” 3D transistor architecture, which it says could continue chip innovation for 10 years

Industry leaders had worried that innovations in chip miniaturization were no longer possible.

2026-04-16
New York Times

A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models

When Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, computers were still just computers.Forums:r/technologyForums:r/technology:We Don't Really Know How A.I. Works.  That's ...

2025-11-12
New Scientist 17 related

IBM unveils two quantum computers, Loon and Nighthawk, that it says feature unprecedented qubit connectivity designs aiming to enable error-free computations

IBM revealed two new quantum computers, called Loon and Nighthawk - the qubits they use are connected in newly intricate ways …

2025-10-29
VentureBeat 2 related

IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers

In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course …

2025-10-03
VentureBeat 9 related

IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open-source, enterprise-ready LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than conventional LLMs

Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” …

2025-08-21
MIT Technology Review 13 related

NASA and IBM release Surya, an open-source machine learning model trained on over a decade's worth of NASA solar data to predict solar flares and solar winds

a new foundation model designed to help researchers protect infrastructure through accessible, accurate modeling of space weather. It's going to totally change how we forecast solar storms. See how.🧵 ...

2025-08-12
Financial Times 1 related

Google and IBM believe the first industrial-scale quantum computer is in sight, potentially by 2030, but challenges like scaling from <200 to 1M+ qubits remain

Recent breakthroughs have revived confidence about creating full-scale quantum systems by end of the decade

2025-07-08
Reuters 10 related

IBM unveils Power11, its first major update to the chips since 2020, available from July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute

International Business Machines (IBM.N) on Tuesday announced a new line of data center chips and servers that it says will be more power-efficient …

2025-06-10
Wall Street Journal 11 related

IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a “fault-tolerant” quantum computer with 20,000x the compute of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029

The powerhouse computers can be sensitive and error-prone.  Now, IBM is offering some details on how it will overcome …

2025-04-08
TechCrunch 16 related

IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, able to process 450B daily inference operations, 50% more than the z16 released in 2022, available on June 8

IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

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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