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IBM now brings OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 and Codex, to enterprise customers through IBM Consulting, under a partnership announced in August 2026. In May, it launched the ITBench-AA enterprise IT benchmark with Artificial Analysis, where all frontier models scored below 50%. In February, IBM shares fell 13% after Anthropic highlighted Claude Code's ability to refactor legacy COBOL applications.

All 4 IBM entries of the AI News timeline, newest first.

2026

August 2026

2026-08-14

  • IBM and OpenAI Announce Enterprise AI Partnership
    IBM and OpenAI announced a partnership to bring OpenAI's frontier models—including GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work—to enterprise customers across finance, government, telecom, and retail, via a dedicated OpenAI unit within IBM Consulting and integration into IBM Consulting Advantage. The deal, which expands the companies' cybersecurity collaboration around IBM Autonomous Security, comes less than a year after IBM struck a similar partnership with Anthropic, underscoring intensifying competition among model providers for large-scale corporate workloads. (aibusiness.com)
    OpenAI

May 2026

2026-05-27

  • ITBench-AA Launch: Frontier Models Under 50% on Enterprise IT Benchmark
    Artificial Analysis and IBM launched ITBench-AA, the first benchmark for evaluating AI models on agentic enterprise IT tasks, starting with 59 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) tasks involving Kubernetes incident response. All frontier models scored below 50%, with Claude Opus 4.7 leading at 47%, highlighting that complex infrastructure diagnosis remains a significant challenge for current AI agents. (artificialanalysis.ai)

2026-05-23

  • Ferrari partners with IBM AI for fan engagement
    Ferrari partnered with IBM to overhaul its fan app using AI, adding features like AI-written race summaries, prediction games, an AI companion for fan questions, and personalized content — resulting in a 62% increase in engagement over race weekends. (techcrunch.com)
    Ferrari

February 2026

2026-02-23