IBM Think 2026 — watsonx Orchestrate Becomes Multi-Agent Control Plane, Launches 'IBM Bob' Agentic Dev Partner and Sovereign Core
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IBM unveiled its biggest enterprise AI expansion at Think 2026 on May 5. The next-gen watsonx Orchestrate (private preview) evolves into an agentic control plane where organizations deploy agents from any source with consistent policy enforcement. IBM Bob, now GA, is an agentic development partner with security and cost controls. IBM Sovereign Core embeds governance at the infrastructure runtime level for regulatory compliance across sovereign deployments.