IBM will retrain tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's stack, less than a year after its Anthropic alliance.

Announced August 13, IBM Consulting will train and certify tens of thousands of consultants, mostly existing employees, on Codex, the API and cybersecurity offerings over the next several months, per managing partner Mike Healy. GPT-5.6, Codex and ChatGPT Work fold into IBM Consulting Advantage, with joint solutions targeting financial services, government, telecom and retail. Terms undisclosed. Systems integrators are hedging across labs rather than picking one, which is the correct move and also means their "we're a Claude shop" positioning means nothing.