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Chips and infrastructure
Chips and infrastructureOctober 27, 2026, 13:00

IBM links two Nighthawk quantum processors with four l-couplers at 99% fidelity

IBM researchers have connected two IBM Quantum Nighthawk processors using four meter-scale l-couplers, reaching an average quantum state transfer fidelity of 99%.…

CoreWeave joins Red Hat's llm-d open source project as a founding member
For developersOctober 22, 2026, 18:19

CoreWeave joins Red Hat's llm-d open source project as a founding member

CoreWeave has become a founding member of Red Hat's new llm-d open source project, alongside IBM Research, Google and NVIDIA. According to CoreWeave, the project aims to…

Safety and ethics
Safety and ethicsOctober 21, 2026, 14:00

IBM Research touts runtime monitoring plugin amid inference push

IBM Research has published a blog post titled "A new plugin can enable fast runtime monitoring and control". The text available for this report contains only the…

IBM's ALTK-Evolve lifts GPT-4.1 to the top of τ²-bench retail
ResearchOctober 20, 2026, 17:19

IBM's ALTK-Evolve lifts GPT-4.1 to the top of τ²-bench retail

IBM Research says its ALTK-Evolve method took a basic customer-service agent built on GPT-4.1, an older non-reasoning model, to 67.5% Pass^4 on τ²-bench retail.…

For developers
For developersOctober 20, 2026, 14:00

IBM Research says llm-d 1.0 hardens open-source AI inference

IBM Research has published a blog post titled "llm-d 1.0 hardens open-source AI inference for production", pointing to a 1.0 release of llm-d aimed at production use.…

Chips and infrastructure
Chips and infrastructureOctober 13, 2026, 18:00

IBM Research Targets Affordable AI-Driven Chip Design With Open Agent Factories

IBM Research has published a post titled "Preparing chip designers for the nanostack era", with a focus on making AI-driven chip design affordable through open agent…

Research
ResearchOctober 13, 2026, 14:00

IBM Research publishes post on open agent factories for chip design

IBM Research has published a blog post titled "Scaling AI-driven chip design with open agent factories". The text available for this report contains only the title and a…