IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said on Friday that their hiring over the next 12 months will reach a five-year high, after the company announced Tuesday that it will lay off a small percentage of its employees in the current quarter. Watch more: cnb.cx/4hYfAsz | CNBC

IBM vice chair and former NEC director Gary Cohn said Wednesday "when we get into the quantum space, AI will go from the cost saver to the revenue creator" because the models will then be able to actually think instead of only doing what they were trained to do. Watch the full interview: cnb.cx/48OdhWw | CNBC