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IBM Pays $17M for Discriminatory DEI Practices

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) agreed to pay $17,077,043 to resolve DOJ allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with anti-discrimination requirements in its federal contracts. The government alleged that IBM discriminated against employees and applicants based on race, color, national origin, or sex through tying bonus compensation to demographic targets, altering interview criteria through diverse interview slates, setting demographic goals for business units, and restricting access to certain training programs based on protected characteristics.

IBM AI Patent, Real-Time Air Temperature Forecasting

The USPTO granted US Patent 12,607,771B2 to International Business Machines Corporation on April 21, 2026. The patent covers a system and method for dynamically forecasting high spatial resolution air temperature in real-time using multiple data sources, generative adversarial networks for spatial downscaling, and physics-informed neural networks with extended Kalman filters for temporal forecasting. The patent contains 19 claims.