IBM has launched its first modular quantum computer, IBM Quantum System Two, and a new utility-scale quantum processor called IBM Quantum Heron. IBM Quantum System Two comes with three IBM Heron processors and serves as the foundation of the company’s quantum-centric supercomputing architecture, the company said Monday.

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IBM has created a toolkit designed to help businesses deploy and monitor trustworthy generative artificial intelligence technologies. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that it will launch the watsonx.governance software early next month to aid organizations in complying with future safety and transparency AI regulations within and outside the U.S.

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IBM has participated in a Series D round launched by open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face to raise $235 million in funding as the latter works to advance technology innovation and further expand its presence in the open science AI market. The move builds on IBM’s collaboration with Hugging Face on watsonx. IBM said Thursday […] More

Watsonx.ai, a geospatial foundation model IBM built from NASA’s satellite data, was made available on open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in an effort to expand use of the space agency’s Earth science data for geospatial intelligence and advance climate-related innovation. Sriram Raghavan, vice president of IBM Research AI, said in a statement published Thursday, […] More

With nearly two decades at IBM, Don Fenhagen has held a variety of roles across the company’s commercial and government sectors. He is currently part of IBM Consulting’s federal market organization as a managing client partner overseeing the organization’s national security sector. When explaining his tenure at IBM, Fenhagen cited the company’s wide range of opportunities, positive work […] More

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will host a project aimed at demonstrating an IBM artificial intelligence-based tool for the analysis of intellectual property data on inventions. The demo will center on the IBM IP Advisor with Watson platform, which includes the Watson Assistant AI technology and Watson Discovery for guided navigation and content insight […] More

Francisco Partners has launched a new independent company, named Merative, upon completion of the private equity firm’s acquisition of health care data and analytics assets from IBM’s Watson business. The transaction was first announced in January and the investment company said Thursday it appointed Gerry McCarthy, a three-decade health care industry veteran, as CEO of […] More

IBM and Salesforce have teamed up to help government agencies, businesses and schools verify an individual’s health and vaccine status to enable them to safely reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership will facilitate the integration of IBM Digital Health Pass with the Salesforce Work.com platform to provide organizations with a single tool for making data-driven decisions as they work to streamline communications, initiate actions and reduce risks.

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IBM, BAE Systems and General Dynamics presented at the 2020 Association of the United States Army conference their hybrid cloud services that can be moved from one system to another, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

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IBM announced that it is offering free access to its portfolio of patents to help companies, scientists and other innovators develop technologies that could be used to detect, prevent and treat COVID-19.

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IBM is providing citizens free tools through The Weather Channel application and website to help them track reported COVID-19 cases and gain access to news and other information related to the coronavirus pandemic using their computers and smartphones.

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IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted research into artificial intelligence’s impact on employment and found that the emerging technology would result in fewer tasks and more focus on work that requires “soft skills.”

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