IBM–CrowdStrike and Intel Deals Mark Quantum–AI Shift to Deployment

Overview

• IBM and CrowdStrike, in a partnership announced March 25, are linking Charlotte AI with IBM’s ATOM to speed threat detection, investigations, and containment across identity, devices, and cloud tools.
• CrowdStrike and Intel extended their tie-up to tune the Falcon platform for AI PCs on Intel chips, adding on‑device, hardware‑level threat spotting and data safeguards as more AI work runs locally.
• Rigetti said March 25 it will invest up to $100 million in the UK and aims to field a system with more than 1,000 qubits within three to four years to push larger, more useful workloads.
• IonQ signed an MoU with South Korea’s KISTI on March 23 to expand training, market access, infrastructure links, and talent exchange to grow the country’s quantum capacity.
• D‑Wave reported this quarter’s bookings have already topped any prior full‑year total and highlighted a strong cash position, while March analyst notes cut price targets for IBM, Rigetti, and QUBT.