IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent to Power Real-Time AI Data

news.law March 19, 2026

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today completed its acquisition of Confluent, Inc., the data streaming platform that more than 6,500 enterprises, including 40% of the Fortune 500, rely on to power real-time operations. Together, IBM and Confluent deliver a smart data platform that gives every AI model, agent, and automated workflow the real-time, trusted data needed to operate across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments at scale.

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production, the critical barrier to success is the data — clean, governed, continuously refreshed —and delivered at the speed and scale AI demands. Yet in most enterprises today, data remains siloed across systems and environments, arriving hours or days after it is generated.

xAI Sued Over Grok Image Tool's Lack of Safeguards Against Child Exploitation Content

Sutter Health and Allina Health Announce Plan to Merge and Form a 39-Hospital, $26B Nonprofit Health System