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IBM completed its largest acquisition since Red Hat, buying data streaming company Confluent for $31 per share and delisting it from Nasdaq as it bets on real-time data as the backbone of enterprise AI.

IBM Research, Red Hat, and Google Cloud donated llm-d, a Kubernetes-native LLM inference framework, to the CNCF as a sandbox project at KubeCon Europe 2026, backed by NVIDIA, CoreWeave, AMD, and other partners.

HashiCorp's March 31 deadline to kill its legacy free plan is pushing developers toward OpenTofu, Pulumi, and self-hosted alternatives as IBM's ownership tightens access to once-free tools.