According to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Commerce will distribute $2 billion in grants to nine quantum computing companies in exchange for equity stakes. IBM receives $1 billion, chipmaker GlobalFoundries gets $375 million, and

According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Commerce Department announced on May 21 a total of $2 billion in government grants to 9 quantum computing companies, including IBM, with the federal government also acquiring equity stakes in the transactions. The move aims to accelerate development of

At Think 2026 conference on May 5, IBM unveiled expanded capabilities for its Confluent platform to support real-time data processing for AI-driven operations. The company introduced tools aimed at helping enterprises improve AI deployment, governance, and operational scalability. According to

The 2025 Turing Award has been awarded to IBM Fellow Charles H. Bennett and University of Montreal Professor Gilles Brassard in recognition of their pioneering contributions to quantum information science, particularly the development of the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol, which laid the foundation for quantum cryptography.

IBM researchers collaborate with Signal and Threema to design quantum-resistant messaging systems. Cryptographer Ethan Heilman points out that the quantum risk faced by encrypted messaging platforms is higher than that of Bitcoin. Signal has launched the PQXDH upgrade, Threema is exploring NIST standard ML-KEM algorithms, and they are also focusing on metadata protection.

On February 25, IBM's stock price plummeted approximately 13% in a single day, wiping out nearly $31 billion in market value and prompting Wall Street to reevaluate its core business model. The immediate trigger for this sell-off was the technological breakthrough announced by Anthropic, whose Claude model is said to be capable of reading and modernizing traditional COBOL code. This capability directly threatens IBM's long-standing reliance on mainframe maintenance and enterprise consulting markets. For years, IBM's moat in the enterprise infrastructure sector has been primarily built on deep services related to mainframe systems and the COBOL language. Banks, insurance companies, and government databases still run a large amount of legacy code, making system maintenance, upgrades, and migrations a stable long-term revenue source. However, as AI code migration tools become increasingly mature, the market is beginning to worry that "AI automation of traditional system modernization" will shorten high-cost consulting project cycles and reduce dependence on traditional service providers.

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