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Leuven – October 29, 2026 -- SettleMint has integrated its Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) with IBM Digital Asset Haven, giving financial institutions, governments and other regulated organizations a single environment for tokenized asset issuance, custody and transaction controls. The integration is available now.

DALP and IBM Digital Asset Haven split policy, custody and approval duties

IBM Digital Asset Haven supplies wallet and key management, transaction approvals and governance. SettleMint's DALP applies asset-eligibility and transfer rules. Together they define who sets policy, who approves activity and who resolves exceptions.

New York – October 29, 2026 -- IBM and the USTA have renewed their partnership for five years, keeping IBM the Official AI and Cloud Partner of the US Open through 2031, after IBM-powered digital platforms drew more than 270 million total engagements at the 2026 tournament.

The 270 million figure combines activity across USOpen.org and the US Open app. The renewal extends a relationship that IBM dates back 35 years.

IBM-built features debuted at the 2026 US Open

The collaboration began with the launch of USOpen.org in 1995, followed by the mobile app in 2009. The 2026 edition added three fan-facing features: Live Updates, Key Moments and Serve Quality. According to the companies, these run on hybrid cloud and AI technologies.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Only 25% of enterprises have moved 40% or more of their AI experiments into production, according to Deloitte's 2026 State of AI in Enterprise study. S&P Global Market Intelligence reports that 42% of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% a year earlier.

The author argues the gap is an organizational problem, not a technology one. Workflows are still built for human handoffs, decision rights are fragmented, and incentives reward the old way of working.

ATLANTA – October 28, 2026 -- IBM is extending HashiCorp Vault to AI agents, issuing each one a governed identity and short-lived credentials, as Gartner data shows only 13% of organizations believe they have the right agent governance in place. The company announced the capabilities at TechXchange 2026.

Gartner projects that by 2028 the average Fortune 500 enterprise will use more than 150,000 AI agents. IBM cites persistent credentials, unclear ownership and disconnected controls as the main obstacles to governing agents that call tools and act across teams, platforms and clouds.

United States – October 26, 2026 -- DARPA has advanced 11 quantum computing companies to Stage B of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), giving each team one year to show that a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer can be built by 2033.

Launched in 2024, the QBI is designed to test whether any quantum approach can reach utility-scale performance on an economically sensible timeline. It is not a winner-takes-all contest. Several teams can succeed in parallel, or none at all.

Stage B follows a six-month feasibility screen of nearly 20 companies

Stage A selected nearly 20 companies to propose fault-tolerant architectures that could realistically be built within a decade and deliver net value. Over six months, DARPA worked with each team to test the feasibility of its concept. The 11 Stage B companies now come with funding and tighter scrutiny. The source does not disclose the funding amounts.

Finland – October 26, 2026 -- SemiQon, a 2023 spinout from Finland's VTT research institute, has shipped its first 4-qubit silicon spin-qubit chips to research collaborators after completing several fab runs. CEO and co-founder Himadri Majumdar says buyers should judge quantum processors on fidelity at scale and other system-level metrics, not on small-device fidelity alone.

Majumdar says 98% fidelity can be offset by qubit volume

Majumdar argues that some players over-optimize fidelity on small qubit counts. In his view, a sufficiently large number of physical qubits makes six nines of fidelity unnecessary. He puts the industry's physical-to-logical qubit ratio at about 100 to 1, down from 1,000 to 1, while some players promise 12 to 1.

London – October 15, 2026 -- Eight in ten executives surveyed across Europe and the Middle East say an AI-related incident reached their board or C-suite in the past year, yet only 40% of those organizations changed AI governance policy or frameworks in response, according to new IBM research.

The survey covers 3,221 senior executives, including C-level, at organizations with 1,000 or more employees in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Censuswide conducted the research for IBM between 14 and 24 September 2026. Incidents in scope included agent failures, data exposure, AI-driven decision errors and AI security breaches.

56% of executives keep deploying AI while governance catches up

When deployment speed outpaces governance and compliance readiness, 56% of respondents proceed within agreed risk limits while governance adapts. One third delay deployment until governance is ready.

Albany – October 15, 2026 -- IBM and Siemens have launched a joint research program to prepare IBM's nanostack transistor architecture, which packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a space the size of a fingernail at the 7 angstrom node, for volume manufacturing.

Nanostack stacks and staggers transistors in three dimensions

IBM describes nanostack as the industry's first known three-dimensional, nanosheet-based design. It vertically stacks and staggers transistors to raise density. The architecture also allows different material combinations in each stacked layer, so each transistor's performance and power efficiency can be optimized independently of the other.

IBM credits the design with substantial gains in energy efficiency, performance and SRAM scaling. It unveiled the architecture earlier this year and has demonstrated that it is viable.

Queens, New York – October 14, 2026 -- Vaughn College hosted the sixth annual International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications (ICDTA) on October 9 and 10, drawing researchers from more than 30 countries to a hybrid event on digital technologies, soft computing and intelligent systems.

Plenary speakers from Predictum and IBM open the in-person program on October 9

The morning plenary featured Wayne J. Levin, president and CEO of Predictum Inc., and Dr. Philip Ramsey, the company's vice president of data science and training. They argued that bad research costs the US economy several billion dollars every year and outlined steps to reverse the trend.

Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, principal research scientist at IBM, closed the session with a talk on efficient large language model (LLM) inference. Inference is the process of generating text, code or data from a prompt without changing the model's learned weights.

Armonk, N.Y. – October 07, 2026 -- Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) cut operational cycle times by 50% across purchasing, manufacturing and inventory processes after a three-month SAP Cloud ERP transformation delivered through IBM Ready for SAP Solutions, IBM announced.

IBM launches Ready for SAP Solutions to speed midsize ERP modernization

IBM unveiled IBM Ready for SAP Solutions, a new offering combining industry expertise, fit-to-standard delivery and the IBM Consulting Advantage AI-powered platform to help midsize and fast-growing organizations modernize cloud ERP, unify enterprise data and build an AI-ready digital core. VBC and Second Nature Brands are named as early clients.