“With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI.”

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent...

I don't understand how this acquisition is relevant for AI.

Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.

Event-driven AI decision making is the C-suite wet dream. A large % of major orgs run Kafka for their eventing systems.

It's depressing how IBM always uses the same language with every single acquisition. They don't care about the actual tech, only the patents and the ability to resell it.

As I read the release, it just sounded like "something something something data, something something something AI."

AI is just the lastest buzzword. Everyone has it, because they have to. Don't look behind the curtain.

Streaming, EDA can solve lot of data challenges for enterprise AI use cases

Anything today has to contain the word "AI" otherwise it simply won't be considered.

You can double your company's value by saying it's an AI company. Easiest, simplest way to create value.

They probably have cursor licenses

AI Agent for Kafka Consumer group

/s