Google Patents an AI That Listens to Your Environment and Suggests What to Do Next
Google is patenting a system where your device passively listens to what's happening around you, figures out what you probably want to…
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.
Google is patenting a system where your device passively listens to what's happening around you, figures out what you probably want to…
Running every developer keystroke through a massive cloud LLM is expensive. Microsoft's new patent describes a routing layer that quietly decides when…
Running multiple specialized AI models on a phone is expensive — each one wants its own memory, its own quantization setup, and…
Most robot navigation systems struggle when obstacles cluster in awkward configurations. Samsung's new patent takes a geometric detour — literally — by…
Salesforce is patenting a system where AI agents don't just suggest procurement actions — they take them, autonomously contacting suppliers on your…
What if your AI assistant didn't just give you one answer — but quietly ran several, graded them, and only showed you…
Every AI system eventually produces a wrong or unhelpful answer — the question is what happens next. IBM's new patent describes a…
Before a smart AI assistant books your flight or searches for an apartment, it needs to figure out exactly which tool to…
Before your AI assistant answers a question, what if it could automatically load up a compressed briefing of everything relevant about your…
Meta is filing patents for a drag-and-drop-style AI chatbot creation system that uses data already sitting on its platforms to train your…
Imagine having an AI assistant that doesn't just run your experiments — it reads the hypothesis, evaluates the results, and tells you…
Every time you have a long back-and-forth with an AI chatbot, the model has to remember everything that came before — and…
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