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accession: "0001104659-25-093893"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DVLT"
cik: "0001682149"
company_name: "Datavault AI Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:34:20.223042+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Datavault AI restructures $25.77M IBM payment plan; cuts stockholder quorum to 1/3

## Summary
- Total payments of $25.77M under IBM amendment, including $2.5M upfront with quarterly installments of $2.184M through December 2027.
- Licensed IBM watsonx.governance programs (210 VPC subscriptions, 42 Risk & Compliance cores) with one-year term starting September 30, 2025.
- Charter amendment filed September 25, 2025; board reduced stockholder meeting quorum from majority to one-third of voting power.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-093893
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DVLT
- cik: 0001682149
- company_name: Datavault AI Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682149/000110465925093893/0001104659-25-093893-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682149/000110465925093893/tm2526979d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-093893
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-093893.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-093893.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Datavault AI Inc.: Decreased quorum required for a meeting of stockholders from majority of voting power to one-third of voting power (effective 2025-09-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-25
  source text: On September 25, 2025, the Board approved an amendment to the Bylaws (the “Bylaws Amendment”) to decrease the quorum required for a meeting of stockholders from a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of stock to one-third of such voting power.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682149/000110465925093893/0001104659-25-093893-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Datavault AI Inc.: Filed amendment to certificate of incorporation to permit board to amend bylaws (effective 2025-09-25).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-25
  source text: On September 25, 2025, the Company filed the Charter Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682149/000110465925093893/0001104659-25-093893-index.htm

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