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IBM and OpenAI Forge Strategic Partnership to Embed Frontier AI Across Consulting Operations

IBM and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership on August 13, 2026, embedding OpenAI's frontier models, including GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work, into IBM Consulting Advantage. The collaboration includes joint go-to-market initiatives, a dedicated OpenAI Practice staffed by thousands of consultants, and a focus on financial services, government, telecommunications, and retail. Three workstreams target legacy operations, application modernization, and cybersecurity, building on IBM's existing AI and security offerings.

Aug 135 minNeura News

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IBM Report: 92% of AI Security Incidents Trace Back to Missing Access Controls

IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 reveals that 92% of AI-related security incidents stem from missing access controls, not the AI models themselves. Breaches involving AI cost an average of $5.33 million, rising to $6.04 million when attackers use AI. The report highlights basic oversights like misconfigured APIs and cloud services as primary entry points.

Aug 33 minNeura News

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NVIDIA and Tech Giants Launch Open Secure AI Alliance

NVIDIA and dozens of industry leaders, including Adobe, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, IBM, Microsoft, and Red Hat, have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance. The group aims to develop and share open tools, models, and techniques to improve cybersecurity and AI safety, building on the Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative and OpenSSF community work.

Jul 275 minNeura News

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IBM Granite 4.1 LLMs: Full Training Breakdown

IBM's Granite Team details the construction of Granite 4.1, a set of decoder-only LLMs in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes trained on about 15 trillion tokens through five pre-training phases. The models receive supervised fine-tuning on 4.1 million curated samples and multi-stage reinforcement learning. The 8B instruct version equals or beats the prior Granite 4.0-H-Small 32B-A9B MoE model using a basic dense setup with fewer parameters. All models appear under Apache 2.0 license.

Apr 298 minNeura News

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VAKRA Benchmark Examines AI Agent Reasoning Failures

IBM Research details VAKRA, a benchmark that tests AI agents on reasoning and tool use in enterprise settings. It features over 8,000 APIs across 62 domains and four capabilities focused on API chaining, tool selection, multi-hop reasoning, and multi-source tasks with policies. Analysis shows models like GPT-OSS-120B lead but all struggle with complex workflows, as revealed in error breakdowns and performance charts.

Apr 155 minNeura News