IBM
IBM appears in 1,251 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is easing, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not IBM's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of IBM is easing — it appears in 1,251 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What IBM coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 1,061 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
1,251 articles mention IBM across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 688 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report IBM saw growing interest in on-prem AI infrastructure as open weight models became cheaper and more effective.
- report IBM reported third-quarter revenue of $17.1 billion, up 5% year over year, and net income of $2.19 billion.
51 posts on company and project channels mention IBM across the full 15-month record. They come from any company or project channel Compass reads, not only IBM's own. They are counted separately from the 1,251 press articles.
Where they were published:AWS News Blog · 18MIT News - Artificial intelligence · 14NVIDIA Blog · 4Cloud Blog · 3AWS Machine Learning Blog · 2
- Oct 21, 2026Amazon Web Services, ClickHouse, Cloudera, Cohesity, Dassault Systèmes, Dell, Elastic, Exa, IBM, NetApp, Oracle, Perplexity, Starburst, and VAST Data are building on Agent Knowledge Foundation.NVIDIA Blog
- Oct 20, 2026Google Cloud partnered with Meta, Hugging Face, Inferact, RadixArk, Red Hat, IBM, and others on TorchTPU-related integrations.Cloud Blog
- Oct 14, 2026Google co-founded the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance with Amazon Web Services, Cisco, IBM, NVIDIA, and the Linux Foundation.Cloud Blog
Press coverage and company and project posts are two separate counts. Every press figure on this page, including the monthly line and the rising or falling call, comes from the independent press only. Before October 2026, Compass counted these posts as press coverage. How this is measured.
- IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-premThe Register
- IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4% (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)Techmeme
- IBM-backed llm-d framework adds controls for running AI models in-houseSiliconANGLE
As of 22 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 372,758 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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