Former IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. sits at one of the electronic data processing machines made by his company, May 24, 1956. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS hide caption
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The West Wing of the White House on July 5, 2023. Tech executives are meeting with top Biden administration officials on Tuesday to agree to voluntary measures to reduce risks posed by AI. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
IBM announced this week that it would stop selling its facial recognition technology to customers including police departments. The move prompted calls for other tech firms, like Amazon and Microsoft, to do the same. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
George Laurer in 2011 at the University of Maryland's Innovation Hall of Fame. His many inventions, including the Universal Product Code, led to his induction into the hall in 1991. Al Santos/University of Maryland hide caption
Google's processor, Sycamore, performed a truly random-number generation in 200 seconds. The achievement marks a major breakthrough in the decadeslong quest to use quantum mechanics to solve computational problems. Above, a Google sign at the company's campus in Mountain View, Calif. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Tech giant IBM announced Sunday that it will acquire open source software company Red Hat. The company's logo is seen here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February. Pau Barrena/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
IBM Senior Vice President Bob Picciano and The Weather Co.'s chairman & CEO, David Kenny, speak at the IBM Insight Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. IBM hide caption
A woman holds up a tablet to showcase data analytics conducted by IBM's Watson technology. IBM hide caption
An alliance led by IBM Research has produced the semiconductor industry's first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functional transistors. Darryl Bautista/FPS FOR IBM hide caption
IBM's Watson supercomputer is most famous for winning at Jeopardy! Now it's been called in to come up with recipe ideas. Bob Goldberg/AP/IBM hide caption
I've Got The Ingredients. What Should I Cook? Ask IBM's Watson
Twelve atoms can hold one bit, IBM says. IBM Research Almaden hide caption
Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter, right, applauded for Watson earlier in the competition. Carol Kaelson/AP hide caption