What they’re building
The watsonx platform supports building enterprise-grade agents, and IBM Consulting offers agentic AI transformation services, applying agents to legacy system automation.
Company facts
Investment & ownership
Publicly traded (NYSE: IBM).
Key people
- Arvind KrishnaChairman & CEO
Why it matters for the agentic web
Banks, insurers, and governments move last and spend most. IBM pairing an agent platform with an army of consultants is how the agentic web reaches the regulated industries that everyone else finds too slow to sell into.
Latest headlines
Pulled from news feeds August 18, 2026 — refreshed on the newsroom’s twice-weekly beat.
- The Dun & Bradstreet Commercial Graph is now available in the watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog via MCP server - IBM
- IBM and OpenAI team up to bring AI deeper into the enterprise - IBM
- How to manage AI agents without wrecking your business - IBM
- Agentic workflows in Maximo Assistant - IBM
- Why financial institutions face a procurement paradox in the AI era - IBM
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The other side of this story
IBM sends agents out to use the web. Our platform is the receiving end: a #name and portal make your business findable, readable, and transactable by exactly these agents.