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Though technology companies announced massive layoffs last year, 2023 has been much worse. So far, layoffs have far outpaced those in all of 2022, as tech giants including Amazon, Facebook parent company Meta, Microsoft, Google, IBM, SAP, and Salesforce - as well as many smaller companies - announce sweeping job cuts.
Computerworld
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years.
Bloomberg
IBM and Rapidus, a newly formed chip maker backed by the Japanese government, on Tuesday announced a partnership that aims to manufacture the world's most advanced chips in Japan by the second half of the decade.
Reuters
IBM is among a long list of companies that suspended operations in Russia when President Putin invaded Ukraine in February.
The Register
Globalfoundries is seeking a court ruling dismissing IBM's claim that the chip maker violated a manufacturing agreement with the former owner of its fabs.
EE Times
IBM has unveiled a breakthrough in semiconductor design and process with the development of the world's first chip announced with 2-nanometer (2nm) nanosheet technology.
Company release
IBM's revenue fell more than analysts were expecting.
CNBC
IBM has agreed to pay $24.25 million to resolve a pair of investigations by the Federal Communications Commission over subsidies awarded to connect schools and libraries to broadband.
Reuters
International Business Machines said on Wednesday Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna would take over as chairman from Jan. 1, replacing Ginni Rometty, who stepped down as its long-time CEO earlier this year.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday signed a partnership with IBM to combine "edge computing" with private 5G networks, the latest tie-up among big technology firms trying to help customers automate production.
Reuters
IBM announced today it would acquire TruQua Enterprises, a finance and analytics company in the IT and SAP industries. That becomes the latest purchase geared toward enhancing IBM's offerings in the hybrid cloud.
Motley Fool
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna noted in a letter to President-elect Joe Biden that 70% of the tech talent in the U.S. works for the private sector, and the government needs to secure strategic access to that brain power.
CNBC
IBM posted a third consecutive quarter of declining revenue.
CNBC
IBM announced on Monday a new processor chip for data centers that it says will be able to handle three times the workload of its predecessor.
Reuters
U.S. tech firm International Business Machines on Thursday launched a research partnership with Japanese industry to accelerate advances in quantum computing, deepening ties between the two countries in an emerging and sensitive field.
Reuters
IBM's adjusted earnings fell 31% and beat analysts' expectations.
CNBC
The companies said they will collaborate on technologies that improve operations, optimize production quality and enhance worker safety.
ZDNet
IBM disclosed Monday it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software in a letter to Congress calling for new efforts to pursue justice and racial equity, new Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said.
Reuters
IBM is cutting an unspecified number of jobs
CNBC
IBM is aiming to help enterprises automate more infrastructure as it preaches business resiliency.
ZDNet
Krishna spoke about the importance of growth and a determination to keep making acquisitions.
CNBC
It's Arvind Krishna's first day as IBM's 10th CEO.
CNBC
It's hoping to help researchers and frontline medical professionals.
engadget
IBM partners with White House to direct supercomputing power for coronavirus research (Mar 22, 2020)
IBM on Sunday announced an initiative to increase access to high performance computing for groups researching and fighting the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.
CNN
Summit, IBM's supercomputer equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting host cells.
CNN
IBM is commercializing a new technology that makes it easier for computers to understand human communication.
CNN
The Vatican joined forces with tech giants Microsoft and IBM on Friday to promote the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) and call for regulation of intrusive technologies such as facial recognition.
Reuters
Its current cloud business head, Arvind Krishna, will take over as CEO in April.
engadget
IBM may be one of the most iconic American technology companies, but Wall Street no longer views Big Blue as an innovator in a tech landscape dominated by the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google owner Alphabet.
CNN
IBM announced at CES 2020 that its newest 28-qubit quantum computer, Raleigh, achieved the company's goal of doubling its Quantum Volume (IBM names its systems by city names).
Forbes
A breakthrough new battery created by engineers from IBM Research may present a path forward, however. IBM recently announced that it is hard at work developing a novel battery technology that could eliminate the need for heavy metals altogether in battery production.
Digital Trends
IBM's fast-talking AI machine faces a huge new test: It's taking part in a Cambridge University debate on the merits of the emerging technology that will feature some of the world's best human minds.
CNN
A handful of cities have already banned police from using such technology.
CNET
IBM scientists have rejected Google researchers' claim to have achieved "quantum supremacy"
Fortune
20 Sep 2019
IBM announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State.
Company release
But many CEOs tell IBM they don't have the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by emerging technologies.
CNET
New Confidential Computing Consortium will promote the use of TEEs (trusted execution environments).
ZDNet
'Just for the record, zero truth to this rumor. I love AMD and the best is yet to come,' AMD CEO Lisa Su says in response to a report stating that she plans to leave the chipmaker later this year.
CRN
International Business Machines is cutting about 2,000 jobs in a round of layoffs this week, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the technology giant works to reshape its business.
Wall Street Journal
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