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unsettling certainty. And the
- It sounded exactly like that on July 30.
- That's when International Business Machines Corporation ( IBM ) chairman and CEO, Arvind Krishna, sat down with Jim Cramer on Mad Money and made two statements that should stop any serious investor in their tracks.
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IBM CEO sends blunt message on quantum computing Mwangi Enos Sun, August 2, 2026 at 12:33 AM GMT+9 6 min read IBM I've noticed on several occasions that when a conversation is around transformational technology, the people closest to it speak about it with quiet, almost unsettling certainty. And then we have everyone else still debating whether it's real. It sounded exactly like that on July 30.
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