Sony Patent Targets Smarter Personalized Content Delivery for Nursing Care Robots
Sony is building a brain for nursing care robots that reads a patient's personal profile and decides, on its own, what to…
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Assistants that answer and agents that act: filings covering AI that books, schedules, remembers, and gets things done without being walked through every step. We track where Big Tech thinks the autonomy line sits.
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IBM Patents an AI Chatbot That Flags Its Own Uncertain Answers Before Trying Again
Most AI chatbots give you one answer and move on, even when that answer rests on assumptions you never confirmed. IBM is…
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IBM is patenting a system that watches how you use an AI chatbot, predicts what you're going to ask next, and ships…
IBM Patents a System That Makes AI Chatbots Check Photos Before Answering
Instead of just answering your question, IBM's proposed AI system would first search for images and videos to make sure the answer…
Google's New Patent Watches What You Have Open and Surfaces Relevant Assistant Actions
Google is patenting a system that watches which app or webpage you have open and automatically surfaces relevant AI assistant actions, displayed…
Google Patent Reveals AI Assistant That Remembers Users Over Time
Google is patenting a way for its AI assistant to remember things you've told it before and weave that context back into…
Google Patent Reveals Hidden AI Signals That Could Shape Ads You See
Google has figured out a way to read the hidden internal state of an AI chatbot mid-conversation and use that signal to…
Google Patents an AI Meeting Assistant That Listens to Everyone at Once
Imagine a meeting where nobody has to stop and ask the AI a question, because it's already been listening to everyone and…
Google Wants to Sell Ads in Your AI Chatbot's Pauses, Patent Shows
Every time an AI chatbot pauses mid-answer, that silence is a potential ad slot. Google has now filed a patent to fill…
Microsoft Patents Technology That Lets AI Pick Up Conversations Where They Left Off
Every time you close a chat with an AI assistant, it forgets everything. Microsoft is patenting a way to fix that, not…
Microsoft Patent Filing Describes AI Chatbots That Retain Full Conversation History via Summary
AI chatbots have a well-known weakness: they forget things. Microsoft is patenting a fix that keeps a live, size-limited summary of your…
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