Microsoft Patent Would Lock Down AI Models Like Streaming Songs
Microsoft is applying the same copy-protection logic that keeps you from pirating a movie to AI models themselves, treating them as licensed…
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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…
Microsoft Patent Uses Ontology Distance Scoring to Grade AI-Generated Answers
When an AI gives a wrong answer, not all wrong answers are equal. Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that…
Sony Patent Ties Generative AI Output Quality to Valid Authentication Keys
Sony is patenting a generative AI system that produces lower-quality results when you don't have a valid license, and better results when…
IBM Patent Locks AI Models Inside an Encrypted Vault From All Parties
What happens when two companies want to use each other's AI without trusting each other? IBM has a patent for exactly that…
Sony Patent Splits Personal Data Across Machines for Private AI Processing
Sony is patenting a way to run AI analysis on personal data without any single computer ever getting to see the whole…
Google Patents a Content Moderation System That Looks Up Live Context Before Acting
Most automated content moderation systems make decisions using only what they were trained on months ago. Google's new patent describes a system…
IBM Patents a System That Baits Its Own AI Chatbots Into Saying Harmful Things
IBM's new patent describes a system that deliberately tries to get an AI chatbot to say something harmful, and then uses every…
IBM Patents a System for Grading AI-Written Articles Against Human-Edited Ones
How do you know if an AI wrote something good enough? IBM is patenting a method that answers that question by measuring…
IBM Patents a Way to Protect AI Models by Feeding Them Controlled Noise
IBM wants to make AI models forget things they shouldn't remember, and the method involves deliberately corrupting the math happening inside the…
Google Patent Automatically Generates Ad Copy From Website Content
Google has patented a system that automatically reads a website, summarizes it, and uses that summary as a guardrail for writing ad…
Google Patent Turns Live Location Data Into Plain-English Travel Summaries
Instead of staring at a moving dot on a map, you'd get a sentence: 'Sarah is on the highway, about 20 minutes…
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