I spoke to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna about the warning today and here’s what he told me:
“A few large capex deals paused near the end of the quarter. It’s not widespread. It’s mainframe and the software associated with it….Mythos is making people pause to say, wait how much do I need to spend on cyber? They’re pausing on new deals until they know…We don’t see our software being disrupted by ai at all.”