Microsoft Wants LLMs to Do Your Threat Modeling For You
Threat modeling is one of the most time-consuming parts of secure software development. Microsoft is patenting an approach that hands the job…
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Microsoft Patents an AI Prompt Security System That Profiles Both Models and Users
What if your AI assistant could tell when something about a conversation felt off — not because a word matched a blocklist,…
Microsoft Patents a System That Picks the Right AI Inference Trick for Every Job
Not every AI question deserves a full chain-of-thought reasoning marathon — and Microsoft is now patenting a system that figures out exactly…
Microsoft Patents AI Agent System for Searching Fragmented Cybersecurity Data
Security teams routinely juggle dozens of databases that don't speak the same language — literally. Microsoft's new patent describes an AI agent…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Reads Security Logs and Summarizes Threats Automatically
Security logs are famously unreadable — thousands of raw lines that analysts have to sift through to find the one event that…
Microsoft Patents a GPT Model That Remembers When — Not Just What — You Did
Most AI models trained on user behavior know what happened — but not how long it took. Microsoft's new patent tackles that…
Microsoft Patents a Unified Contrastive Learning System for Vision AI
Training a computer vision model that's good at *everything* — object detection, image captioning, visual search — usually means training many separate…
Microsoft Patents a Three-Phase AI System for Predicting Protein Shape Ensembles
Most protein-folding tools give you one shape. Microsoft's new patent targets the harder problem: a protein isn't a single rigid sculpture —…
Microsoft Patents Motion-Compensated Compression for 3D Point Cloud Video
Your phone's video codec has used motion compensation for decades — storing only what changed between frames instead of every pixel every…
Microsoft Patents Block-Based Floating-Point Compression Using Shared Exponents
Floating-point numbers are notoriously expensive to store and move around — each one carries redundant metadata. Microsoft's new patent proposes a smarter…
Brainwaves Could Flag AI Errors the Moment They Appear
What if your AI assistant could tell it made a mistake just by noticing a flicker of surprise in your eyes? Microsoft…
Microsoft Patents a Real-Time Risk-Scoring System for Human and Bot Identities
When an employee — or an automated script — asks for extra permissions, Microsoft's patent wants a risk score calculated on the…
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