Google Patents an Ad-Targeting System That Predicts Whether You'll Actually Pay Attention
Google wants to stop serving ads that users will immediately ignore. A newly filed patent describes a system that predicts whether you'll…
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Google Patents an AI That Converts Photos Between Visual Styles Without Losing the Subject
Google has patented a way to take an image from one visual world — say, a real photograph — and regenerate it…
Google Patents a System That Tests New Phone Features Before They Reach Users
Before Google ships an AI update to millions of phones, it wants to run a controlled head-to-head race on a sample of…
Google Patents an AI That Catches You Up on What Changed in Shared Docs
You open a shared Google Doc after a long weekend and it's covered in edits. Google's new patent describes an AI that…
Google Patents an Assistant That Knows You're Talking to It Without a Wake Word
What if your Google Assistant could tell you were talking to it just by watching your face and listening to how you…
Google Patents a System That Turns Documents Into Natural-Sounding Audio
Google has filed a patent for a system that reads a pile of documents and generates audio that sounds like a real…
Google Patents On-Device Audio That Strips Out Every Voice Except Yours
Imagine being on a noisy call and having your phone automatically strip away every voice except the person you asked it to…
Google Patents the Math That Teaches AI to Understand Words
This is a patent on word embeddings — the foundational idea that lets AI treat language as math. If you've ever used…
Google Patents an AI Training Method That Protects User Data Without Sacrificing Accuracy
Training a recommendation AI on real user data is a privacy minefield. Google's new patent describes a way to do it with…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Builds Realistic Hand Poses from Fingertip Positions Alone
Getting a virtual hand to grip a coffee mug convincingly is surprisingly hard — most systems either look robotic or require an…
A New Microsoft Patent Lets AI Remember and Learn From Past Chats
Every time you close a chat with an AI, everything it figured out during that conversation disappears. Microsoft's new patent is designed…
Meta Patents an AI That Turns Chaotic Group Chats Into a Browsable Subject Tree
Group chats are famously impossible to follow — one thread about dinner plans somehow merges with a debate about a movie and…
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