NYSE:IBM 7 August 2025 - 17 February 2026

Colorado Kills Tech-Backed Right-to-Repair Rollback in Blow to Cisco, IBM
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Colorado Kills Tech-Backed Right-to-Repair Rollback in Blow to Cisco, IBM

A Colorado House committee voted 7-4 to kill SB26-090, which would have exempted some IT equipment in “critical infrastructure” from the state’s right-to-repair law. The bill had passed the Senate earlier this month. The decision leaves in place repair protections for digital electronics that began Jan. 1, including limits on “parts pairing.” Tech companies including Cisco and IBM had backed the measure.
April 29, 2026
IBM stock price faces post-holiday test after FlashSystem buzz and AI hiring push
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IBM stock price faces post-holiday test after FlashSystem buzz and AI hiring push

IBM shares closed Friday up 1.1% at $262.38 after steep declines earlier in the week left the stock about 10% below its Feb. 10 close. U.S. markets reopen Tuesday after Presidents Day, with traders eyeing key economic data and Federal Reserve minutes. IBM drew attention for plans to triple U.S. entry-level hiring and for new FlashSystem storage products shipping March 6.
February 17, 2026
IBM stock slides as AI disruption jitters grow, Confluent vote looms
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IBM stock slides as AI disruption jitters grow, Confluent vote looms

IBM shares fell 6.5% to $272.81 on Wednesday, closing below their 200-day moving average after software stocks slid on renewed AI disruption concerns. Confluent, set to be acquired by IBM for $31 per share, reported Q4 revenue of $314.8 million and will hold a shareholder vote on the merger Thursday. U.S. inflation data due Friday remains a key focus for investors.
February 12, 2026
artificial intelligence predictive maintenance
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AI Maintenance Is Quietly Saving Trillions: Guide to Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance – What It Is, Who’s Winning, and How to Start

Siemens launched an Industrial Copilot for maintenance, integrating Senseye analytics and Azure. IBM added AI agents to Maximo. Studies show AI-based maintenance can cut downtime by up to 45% and reduce costs by 25–35%. Ford is deploying AI vision at scale to prevent rework and recalls.
August 17, 2025
Uploading Minds - Whole Brain Emulation - WBE
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Uploading Minds: The Race for Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) and Its Profound Implications

Researchers mapped the full adult fruit fly brain in 2023, charting 139,000 neurons and 54 million synapses. In 2025, the MICrONS project published a 1 mm³ mouse visual cortex map with half a billion synapses among 75,000 neurons. The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses. The nematode C. elegans connectome, completed in 1986, has 302 neurons.
August 12, 2025
How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption
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No Peeking: How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption

Major cloud providers expanded confidential computing in 2024–2025, enabling encrypted data processing on CPUs and GPUs with hardware TEEs such as Intel SGX, AMD SEV, and NVIDIA H100. Microsoft, Google, AWS, and IBM now offer confidential VMs and enclaves with attestation and key management. EU DORA and NIST CSF 2.0 drove adoption. ABI Research forecasts the market reaching $160 billion by 2032.
August 11, 2025
Quantum Engineering
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Latest Breakthroughs in Quantum Engineering and What They Mean for Our Future

Google’s 70-qubit Willow chip completed a task in under five minutes that would take a top classical supercomputer 10 septillion years, demonstrating quantum advantage and exponential error reduction. Microsoft and UC Santa Barbara built the first topological qubits in the 8-qubit Majorana 1 processor. IBM now operates quantum chips with over 400 qubits and plans a 1,121-qubit chip. Northwestern engineers teleported quantum information over 30 km of live fiber.
August 7, 2025