# IBM announced its most comprehensive expansion of enterprise AI and hybrid cloud management capabilities to date.

*genai · news · 2026-05-05 · The Manila Times*

## Key points

- IBM unveiled the next generation of watsonx Orchestrate, now an agentic control plane for multi-agent orchestration.
- IBM acquired Confluent to deliver real-time, AI-ready data streaming via Kafka and Flink technologies.
- watsonx.data GPU-accelerated Presto achieved 83% cost savings and 30x price-performance improvement for Nestlé.
- IBM Concert Secure Coder embeds automated security management and code remediation directly into developer workflows.
- The newly available IBM Sovereign Core embeds policy at infrastructure runtime, ensuring operational independence and regulatory compliance.

**Companies:** IBM
**Countries:** United States

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