Patent Locks AI Models to Verified Devices, Blocking Unauthorized Copying
Music and movies have had DRM for decades. Microsoft now wants to bring the same lock-and-key idea to AI models themselves, making…
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Salesforce Patents an AI Workspace That Builds Its Own Dashboard From a Question
Type a question, get a whole visual workspace back. Salesforce is patenting a system where an AI doesn't just answer your query,…
Adobe Patent Targets AI-Generated Pixels With New Image Detection Tool
Instead of just telling you whether a photo is AI-generated, Adobe's new patent describes a tool that goes further: it highlights exactly…
Nvidia Patent Reveals AI That Watches and Plays Video Games Autonomously
Nvidia has filed a patent for a system that can watch whatever is on a game screen, figure out what's happening, and…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Track Objects in 3D Space Using Fitted Geometric Shapes
Microsoft is patenting a computer vision technique that wraps geometric shapes around objects in a scene to figure out exactly where they…
Google Patents an AI System That Hides Secret Messages Inside Videos
Google wants to hide undetectable messages inside video footage using AI, in a way that survives editing, compression, and re-uploading. The goal…
Salesforce Patents a System That Automatically Cites Sources in AI Answers
One of the biggest complaints about AI chatbots is that they confidently state things with no indication of where that information came…
Intel Patents a Way to Train AI Across Multiple Machines Without Network Code
Training a large AI model usually means wrestling with low-level networking code just to get dozens of machines talking to each other.…
From Flat to Layered: Adobe Patent Automates Design File Creation
Imagine getting a finished design as a flat JPEG and being asked to edit it. Adobe's new patent describes a system that…
Samsung Patents a Way to Train Image AI by Hiding Parts of Photos
Samsung is teaching its image AI to fill in the blanks, by deliberately cutting pieces out of photos during training and making…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Fill Terrain Gaps Around 3D Objects in Simulations
When a 3D simulation drops a building or a tree into a tiled landscape, the ground underneath can look wrong or just…
Google Patent Reveals Masked Token Prediction for Faster Text-to-Image AI
Google has patented an approach to AI image generation that produces pictures from text prompts without the slow, step-by-step process that makes…
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