IBM re-enters the A.I. race with watsonx, a tool that trains A.I. on companies' private data

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Good morning.

Technology moves slow, then fast. Twelve years ago, an IBM computer named Watson defeated two champions of the TV game Jeopardy. It was a stunning demonstration of the power of artificial intelligence. But subsequent events made clear that A.I. still had a ways to go before it would transform the world of business.