IBM Shares Face Pressure as Rival Cloud Initiative Overshadows Launch
16.01.2026 - 11:06:04
IBM’s strategic move to reinforce its position in the artificial intelligence sector was met with a sell-off, as a competing announcement from a cloud giant captured investor attention. The company’s newly unveiled “IBM Sovereign Core” platform, designed to grant governments and businesses greater control over their AI and cloud infrastructures, was quickly overshadowed.
On Thursday, IBM formally introduced its “Sovereign Core” architecture, built on its Red Hat foundation. The platform targets the growing demand for digital sovereignty. However, the market’s reaction was decidedly negative. This was primarily due to a simultaneous and substantial move by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which committed €7.8 billion to launch its own “European Read more...
