International Business Machines Corp

• IBM acquiring Confluent in $11 billion all-cash deal - IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Confluent.
• Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use - Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum Computing has become the first private firm to deploy a quantum computer for commercial use in the city-state.
• Forget AI spending — the biggest risk to this stock market is speculative junk - The idea that these alternative investments somehow create anything en masse is almost ludicrous.