International Business Machines Corp

• These 5 infrastructure stocks have more than tripled this year on the AI trade - While Nvidia has been the biggest infrastructure winner during the AI boom, other data center stocks have performed better this year.
• AI was behind over 50,000 layoffs in 2025 — here are the top firms to cite it for job cuts - Some of the world's biggest tech companies cited AI as part of their layoff and restructuring strategy in 2025.
• IBM acquiring Confluent in $11 billion all-cash deal - IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Confluent.
• Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use - Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum Computing has become the first private firm to deploy a quantum computer for commercial use in the city-state.
• Forget AI spending — the biggest risk to this stock market is speculative junk - The idea that these alternative investments somehow create anything en masse is almost ludicrous.