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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Technology Company

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Trump accounts launch: America's first universal child investment program

Rule Changes

Committed to Trump Accounts contributions

The program launched July 4, 2026, opening for contributions on America's 250th birthday. Treasury deposited $1,000 into 1.4 million eligible accounts, committing $1.4 billion in total; 6 million children are now enrolled.

Updated 6 days ago

McDonald's tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering

New Capabilities

Former McDonald's AI partner, test ended in 2024

McDonald's put a Google-built AI voice back at the drive-thru speaker box. Its first try, with IBM, became a viral punchline and was pulled in 2024.

Updated Jun 11

Arm shifts from chip licensor to chipmaker for AI data centers

Money Moves

Strategic partner collaborating with Arm to bring Arm software environments to enterprise mainframes

For 35 years, Arm Holdings sold blueprints, not chips. On May 6, 2026, Arm formalized a different future: a $15 billion direct chip-sales business by fiscal 2031, anchored by an in-house data center processor called the Arm AGI CPU.

Updated May 31

AI tools threaten the consulting firms that keep decades-old software running

New Capabilities

Stock down ~33% in February 2026; defending mainframe and consulting business

An estimated 220 billion lines of COBOL code still run in production every day, processing 95% of ATM transactions and roughly $3 trillion in daily commerce. For decades, understanding and modernizing that code has required large teams of specialized consultants working for months or years. On February 23, Anthropic published a playbook showing how Claude Code can automate these labor-intensive tasks—mapping dependencies, documenting workflows, identifying risks across thousands of files.

Updated May 29

Neuromorphic computers master physics simulations

New Capabilities

Pioneered neuromorphic computing with TrueNorth and NorthPole chips

For decades, simulating the physics of airplane wings, nuclear weapons, or weather systems required warehouse-sized supercomputers consuming megawatts of power. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have now demonstrated that brain-inspired neuromorphic chips can solve these same equations (the partial differential equations underlying nearly all physics simulations) with a fraction of the energy.

Updated May 29

IBM’s $11 billion Confluent bet: owning the data arteries of enterprise AI

Money Moves

Strategic acquirer building a hybrid cloud and AI platform via M&A

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent, the data‑streaming company built around Apache Kafka, in an all‑cash deal for about $11 billion, or $31 per share, a roughly 34% premium to its last close. IBM says Confluent's real‑time event streaming and governance capabilities will anchor a new "smart data platform" that connects, cleans, and orchestrates data across hybrid clouds for generative and agentic AI applications. The deal positions IBM as both an AI model provider and the owner of the data plumbing that makes enterprise AI work.

Updated May 10

Riyadh Air bets on an ‘AI-native’ airline to rewire global aviation

New Capabilities

Lead technology partner and systems integrator for Riyadh Air’s AI-native architecture

Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia's startup flag carrier, is what IBM and the airline call the world's first "AI-native" airline — built from day one around AI-driven, cloud-based systems, not retrofitted legacy IT. Launched in March 2023 under Vision 2030, the airline has ordered large fleets from Boeing and Airbus and aims to connect over 100 destinations and serve millions of travelers by 2030 through Riyadh's planned mega-hub.

Updated May 10