news Techcrunch Ai 2026-07-23

IBM CEO: AI Impact on Mainframe Sales is Temporary, Not Existential

Following a significant drop in IBM's stock due to poor mainframe sales warnings, the CEO attributed the decline to AI's temporary impact on corporate hardware budgets. He insists AI is not killing the mainframe business.

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