Published on: 2025-06-04 05:06:21
IBM on Monday said that it has acquired Seek AI, an AI platform that allows users to ask questions about enterprise data using natural language, for an undisclosed sum. Seek CEO and founder Sarah Nagy said that the startup’s technology will be a key part of Watsonx AI Labs, IBM’s new NYC-based AI accelerator, which IBM also announced today. “[W]e’ll scale our platform, deploy mission-critical solutions for IBM clients, empower the next generation of AI developers, and grow our team significant
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Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike any other server CPU. It only has eight cores, but runs them at a very high 5.5 GHz and feeds them with 360 MB of on-chip cache. IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator. Telum II is implemented on Samsung’s leading edge 5 nm process node. IBM’s presentation has alre
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May 1, 2025 Building my childhood dream PC In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers[1]. That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort for a single mother. My brother Aurelien and I spent every waking hour on this machine, staying up all night on weekends. Discovering the architecture of the PC, learning to program it, exploring how to manage its memory with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT , installing isa cards, drawing with Deluxe Paint, and
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IBM Fellow Emeritus and longtime U.S. presidential advisor Richard “Dick” Garwin has passed away. He was 97 years old. In his seven-decade career, Garwin helped define the future of MRI machines, laser printers, touch screens, and the hydrogen bomb. He spent his life in the pursuit of science, and was awarded time and again for his contributions. Among his many accolades, Garwin received the Presidential Medal of Science, the Vannevar Bush Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He advise
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 00:07:58
A recent survey by tech giant IBM came to a conclusion that could send shockwaves through Wall Street and the tech sector writ large. The survey asked whether or not company leaders were reporting that their AI initiatives delivered the expected return on investment. A shockingly small proportion of the surveyed CEOs reported that the tech was delivering on its promises, with only a quarter of the 2,000 respondents answering in the affirmative, while only 16 percent scaled AI across the entire
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 16:14:47
Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. “We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&D should be increased,” Kirshna said in an interview with TechCrunch. “That’s the position, which is unequivocal, and we strongly believe in that.” President Donald Trump and his cabinet have sought to make deep
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Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. “We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&D should be increased,” Kirshna said in an interview with TechCrunch. “That’s the position, which is unequivocal, and we strongly believe in that.” President Donald Trump and his cabinet have sought to make deep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 12:01:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Enterprise AI in 2025 is moving from experimentation to implementation and deployments are evolving from AI assistants to AI agents. That’s the primary theme of the IBM Think 2025 conference, which gets underway today. At the event, IBM is announcing an extensive list of new enterprise AI services as well as enhancements to existing technologies to help move more enter
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Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images IBM is holding its annual THINK conference this week, and, unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence is the star of the show. The common theme across IBM's broad swath of product unveilings is a focus on solutions that make it easier to scale enterprise AI in organizations, tackling challenges organizations face with AI deployment and integration. AI agents AI agents are the latest breakthrough in the AI space, taking the assistance that AI chatbots provide a
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IBM When you think of mainframes, you probably think of spinning tape drives, reams of computer cards, and text-only, green-on-black 3270 terminals. IBM's latest mainframe, the LinuxONE Emperor 5, is not your grandpa's mainframe The fifth generation of its flagship LinuxONE platform, the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5, is engineered to deliver unprecedented levels of security, cost-efficiency, and AI acceleration for mission-critical enterprise workloads. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, the
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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com). Shape the future of IBM! We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submi
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Join the first vLLM meetup in NYC on May 7 at the IBM Innovation Studio at 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan! Hosted by IBM and Red Hat, the event will feature technical talks and discussion on how to optimize LLM inference for performance and efficiency. The transformer architecture behind today’s large language models has shown an uncanny ability to generate human-like text. Part of its effectiveness comes from its self-attention mechanism, which allows the model to weigh all the words in an inpu
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What just happened? IBM has joined the list of companies pledging to pour billions into the US manufacturing industry. The software giant has announced it will be investing $150 billion in the United States over the next five years, including $30 billion toward production of its mainframe and quantum computers. Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, "We have been focused on American jobs and manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago, and with this invest
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In Brief Enterprise tech giant IBM says that it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which will include a “more than” $30 billion investment in mainframe and quantum computing research. The goal is to fuel the economy and “accelerate [IBM’s] role as the global leader in computing,” the company said in a press release Monday. “We have been focused on American jobs and manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago,” CEO Arvind Krishna said in a statement, “and with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 21:59:39
Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), during a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. International Business Machines Corporation on Monday announced it will invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, including more than $30 billion to advance American manufacturing of its mainframe and quantum computers. "We have been focused on American jobs and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-05 21:30:49
Tech and consulting giant IBM was not immune to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts. IBM had 15 of its federal contracts cancelled due to DOGE-related cuts during the first quarter of 2025, according to reporting from Reuters and Bloomberg. These cuts amount to $100 million in future payments, per Bloomberg. Federal contracts represent between 5% and just under 10% of IBM’s consulting practice. After being peppered with questions during IBM’s earnings call Wednesday, Arvind K
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna speaks at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2025. IBM reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter on Wednesday. Here's how the company performed: Earnings per share: $1.60 adjusted vs. $1.40 expected $1.60 adjusted vs. $1.40 expected Revenue: $14.54 billion vs. $14.4 billion expected Revenue increased 0.6% in the quarter from $14.5 billion a year earlier, according to a statement. Net income slid to $1.06 billion, or $1.12
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 20:08:14
Exclusive IBM, which employees wryly or ruefully say stands for I've Been Moved, is once again moving its employees. On Tuesday, Big Blue shared new rules on where it expects its US sales staff to work: At least three days a week at a client, a flagship office, or a sales hub. And the mainframe giant last week told all US Cloud employees, sales or otherwise, to return to the office at least three days per week at designated "strategic" locations. Several current and former IBM employees who h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 01:55:17
Note: This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art. That article is all about the character DEL, what it is, how it was used, and why it even has a visual representation, but with a focus on Commodore's Amiga computers. Whereas AmigaOS's Topaz font renders DEL with diagonal lines, IBM's PC renders it... as a house. This bonus article is about that. This article wouldn't have happened without the great help and insights of Michael Walden
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Note: This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art. That article is all about the character DEL, what it is, how it was used, and why it even has a visual representation, but with a focus on Commodore's Amiga computers. Whereas AmigaOS's Topaz font renders DEL with diagonal lines, IBM's PC renders it... as a house. This bonus article is about that. This article wouldn't have happened without the great help and insights of Michael Walden
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-01 21:55:55
Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new "arch15" that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors , this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware.IBM z17 is advertised as being able to process up to 24 trillion operations per second and their new product page and press release is littered with mentions everywhere of AI and security.As IBM talked about last year at Hot Chips, the IBM Telum II processors are eight cores
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A short list of the most transformative products of the past century and a half would include the lightbulb, Ford’s Model T—and the IBM System/360. This mainframe series forever changed the computer industry and revolutionized how businesses and governments worked, enhancing productivity and making countless new tasks possible. In the years leading up to its 7 April 1964 launch, however, the 360 was one of the scariest dramas in American business. It took a nearly fanatical commitment at all le
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IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption. The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest version of its mainframe computer hardware. This fully encrypted mainframe is powered by an IBM Telum II processor and is designed for more than 250 AI use cases, the company says, including AI agents and generative AI. Mainframes might seem like old hat, but they’re used by 71% of Fortune 500 compan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 13:08:02
IBM on Monday said it has acquired Hakkoda, a data and AI consultancy based in New York. The acquisition would “further expand” IBM’s ability to bring consultants and AI to clients, particularly customers in industries like financial services, public sector, and healthcare and life sciences, said Mohamad Ali, SVP and head of IBM’s consulting business, in a statement. “With Hakkoda’s data expertise, deep technology partnerships, and asset-centric delivery model, IBM will be even better-position
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IBM introduces the TrackPoint II Keyboard (Black) (Model M13) under the OPTIONS by IBM brand. Whilst it is only a visual (raven black) variant of the existing IBM-branded M13, it will still become one of IBM's most iconic specific Model M variants. IBM introduces the ThinkPad 701C and 701Cs notebook computers, IBM's novel solution to reducing a laptop's overall footprint in an era of typical only small displays available. Its integrated IBM TrackWrite Keyboard (also known as the "butterfly keyb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-27 18:55:00
Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Correct Answer: 2000 pounds Which of the following chipmakers never made x86 CPUs? Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton (approximately 2,200 pounds) and was used in the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to feature a moving-head hard disk. The drive occupied 16 square feet and utilized fifty 24-inch platters, which were read by two independently moving arms with an average access time
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 02:14:47
In its latest addition to its Granite family of large language models (LLMs), IBM has unveiled Granite 3.2. This new release focuses on delivering small, efficient, practical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for businesses. IBM has continued to update its Granite LLMs line at a rapid rate. Its last release, Granite 3.1, appeared at the end of 2024. That version was essentially an update. This new model, however, adds experimental chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities to its bag of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 20:28:49
ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: 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. Today nearly 75% of enterprises are using hybrid cloud1, including public clouds from hyperscalers and on-prem data centers, w
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ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: 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. Today nearly 75% of enterprises are using hybrid cloud1, including public clouds from hyperscalers and on-prem data centers, w
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IBM has finalized its multi-billion dollar HashiCorp acquisition, two days after the U.K.’s antitrust regulator gave the deal its blessing. A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had quietly greenlighted the acquisition earlier this week prior to the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Tuesday. Today’s announcement comes 10 months after IBM first revealed plans to pay $6.4 billion for HashiCorp, an enterprise software company best know
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