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IBM CEO: AI Not Replacing Mainframes Despite Poor Sales Quarter

After a sharp decline in IBM's stock due to disappointing mainframe sales, the company's CEO clarified that artificial intelligence is not making mainframes obsolete. The CEO attributed the sales slump to AI's impact on corporate hardware budgets, describing the effect as temporary.

Why it matters: This highlights how AI adoption is reshaping enterprise IT spending and influencing legacy technology markets.

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