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IBM surpassed consensus on the top and bottom lines, with 9% revenue growth. The company reiterated full-year guidance. The hardware, software and infrastructure provider bought data streaming ...

Dave McCann oversees thousands of humans, and also an AI agent he named after himself: Digital Dave. One of the most valuable things it does is conduct research, including on the company's customers.

International Business Machines said Tuesday it closed its roughly $11 billion acquisition of the data-streaming company Confluent. The deal, first announced in December, is intended to help ...

FBI searches of U.S. person data collected using a controversial spying authority rose some 35% in 2025, according to an FBI letter to Congress that was obtained by Nextgov/FCW. The bureau’s searches ...

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IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to bolster its data and automation products as ever more companies move their tech operations to the cloud and ...

IBM said it is acquiring Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion. The addition of Confluent will strengthen IBM's artificial intelligence portfolio. IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the ...

Editor's take: Normal people are now shelling out hundreds of dollars for modest RAM upgrades, while the companies powering the AI boom are looking forward to even more market hysteria. And despite ...

Query groups uses AI to cluster similar search queries. The new card shows total clicks per group and highlights groups trending up or down. Query groups will roll out over the coming weeks to high ...

Microsoft has announced the release of SQL Server Management Studio Preview 3, which brings many features, including "initial" support for ARM64. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the tool of ...

Rather than spending their time executing manual queries, data analysts will increasingly operate like AI engineers—reviewing, refining, and validating AI-generated outputs. AI is not only reshaping ...