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IBM (International Business Machines) is a US-based technology and consulting firm focused on hybrid cloud, enterprise AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing. It operates the worlds largest fleet of quantum computers and is building Anderon, the first purpo...
Q-CTRL clocks 12x speedup on IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 with Fire Opal — Sep 27, 2026 — Q-CTRL's Fire Opal stack cut a 60-qubit fermionic simulation from 4 min 25 s on IBM Heron R3 to 23 s on Nighthawk R2 — a 12x speedup and more than 400...Verizon Puts $70M Behind AI Skills For America With Six Big-Tech Curricula — Sep 24, 2026 — Verizon's $70M AI Skills for America aggregates IBM, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and Coursera coursework with Goodwill, LISC and NACCE coachi...Anderon Locks In $1B CHIPS Award For US Pure-Play Quantum Wafer Foundry — Sep 20, 2026 — IBM's Anderon finalizes a $1B CHIPS award, matched by $1B of IBM money, to scale the US' first pure-play quantum wafer foundry at Albany NanoTech.IBM, Lockheed Martin Anchor Swiss Quantum Hub at ETH Zurich — Sep 11, 2026 — IBM and Lockheed Martin announced a Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub at ETH Zurich anchored by Switzerland's first IBM Quantum System Two, hosted at CSCS...IBM And NASA Ship Open-Source Lunar Foundation Model For Ice, Craters And Landing Sites — Sep 10, 2026 — NASA and IBM open-source the Lunar Foundation Model, joining the Prithvi family on Hugging Face and outperforming baselines by up to 23% on ice, crate...ASUS Widens AI Infrastructure Push From Cloud To Industrial Edge — Sep 6, 2026 — At ASUS AI Tech 2026 in Seoul, ASUS unveiled Intel Xeon 6 and AMD EPYC 9006 servers alongside a new rugged Industrial Edge Server, in partnership with...IBM Releases Quantum Nighthawk r2 With 25x Circuit Speedup And 7,500-Gate Runs — Sep 3, 2026 — IBM Quantum released Nighthawk r2 on September 2, its fastest 120-qubit processor to date, boosting circuit throughput 25x over Heron with a dissipati...IBM Closes HRL Laboratories Buy To Add Silicon-Spin Qubits To Quantum Stack — Sep 1, 2026 — IBM has closed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, adding silicon-spin qubit expertise, quantum sensing and advanced cryogenics to a roadmap that alr...IBM Cloud Bets $240M On Together AI To Host NVIDIA HGX B300 Cluster — Aug 30, 2026 — IBM has signed a multiyear $240 million partnership with Together AI to deploy an NVIDIA HGX B300 cluster on IBM Cloud, aimed at high-performance AI w...IBM Links First Modular Cryogenic Systems On Path To Starling In 2029 — Aug 22, 2026 — IBM has cooled and connected two of its new modular quantum cryogenic systems below 15 millikelvin, an engineering milestone on the roadmap to the Sta...Cleveland Clinic and IBM Unveil Q-CHIPP Quantum AI for Cancer Neoantigens — Aug 19, 2026 — Cleveland Clinic and IBM built Q-CHIPP, a 46-qubit quantum machine-learning framework that outperforms classical models at predicting cancer neoantige...Q-CTRL Runs 100-Qubit Quantum Fourier Transform On IBM Heron Hardware — Aug 17, 2026 — Q-CTRL researchers have executed a 100-qubit Quantum Fourier Transform on an IBM Heron r3 processor, doubling the prior state of the art and isolating...IBM, Zuse Institute and TU Berlin Launch QOBLIB To Score Quantum Optimization — Aug 17, 2026 — A consortium led by IBM Quantum, the Zuse Institute Berlin, TU Berlin and Purdue University has launched QOBLIB, an open-source benchmarking library t...Yonsei Becomes World's Second IBM Nighthawk Quantum Site — Aug 16, 2026 — Yonsei University will install IBM's next-generation Nighthawk quantum processor in November 2026, becoming only the second site after IBM Miami to ru...IBM And OpenAI Ink Elite Partnership To Push Enterprise AI Into Core Operations — Aug 14, 2026 — IBM joins OpenAI's Elite partner tier, embedding GPT-5.6, Codex and ChatGPT Work inside IBM Consulting Advantage and pairing them with IBM Autonomous...EU AI Act Enforcement Powers Over GPAI Providers Go Live August 2 — Aug 3, 2026 — The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers activate August 2, 2026, unlocking fines of up to 3% of global turnover...IBM Claims Verified Quantum Advantage With Qedma, Algorithmiq And University Of Chicago — Aug 3, 2026 — IBM says it has hit multiple 'trusted' quantum-advantage milestones on Heron-based systems in collaboration with Qedma, Algorithmiq, RIKEN, BlueQubit...HRL Labs' 18-Qubit Silicon-Spin QPU Runs Itself In Nature Benchmark — Jul 31, 2026 — HRL Laboratories detailed a self-running 18-qubit silicon-spin quantum processor in Nature, replacing racks of room-temperature control with a cryogen...NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance With Microsoft, IBM And SpaceX — OpenAI, Anthropic Sit Out — Jul 29, 2026 — NVIDIA on July 27 unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of nearly 40 chip, cloud, cybersecurity and AI companies contributing open-source...IBM to Acquire HRL Laboratories to Add Silicon-Spin Qubits to Anderon Foundry — Jul 24, 2026 — IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, bringing silicon-spin qubit engineering and quantum...