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…
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Google Patents a Reverberation Decorrelation Method for Spatial Audio Compression
Spatial audio sounds immersive when it's played back on good speakers — but compressing it without making the reverb sound flat and…
Google Patents a System That Answers Mid-Movie Questions Using Your Watch History
You're watching a movie, you recognize the lead actor, and you ask your voice assistant — 'wait, what else have I seen…
New Waymo Patent Lets Self-Driving Cars Answer Road Questions
Waymo is patenting a system that lets a neural network field open-ended questions about what a self-driving car is currently sensing —…
Google Patents a Geometry-Free Neural Renderer That Skips 3D Reconstruction
Most 3D scene synthesis systems spend enormous effort building an explicit map of the world — depth, meshes, NeRFs — before they…
Microsoft Patents a Context-Aware Copy-Paste Tool That Auto-Transforms Your Content
Copy-paste is one of the oldest tricks in computing — and Microsoft thinks it's overdue for an upgrade. A new patent describes…
Microsoft Patents a System for Controlling Which Data Feeds Your LLM's People Profiles
When an AI generates a bio or summary about a real person, it pulls from data sources you may never have chosen…
Microsoft Patents a System That Turns Form Answers Into Executable Code
What if filling out a form was secretly writing code? Microsoft has filed a patent for exactly that — a system that…
Microsoft Patents a System That Auto-Purges Inactive User Credentials from Devices
Every Windows device that someone logged into once — a contractor, a temp, a former employee — quietly stores their credentials. Microsoft's…
Microsoft Patents a Diff-Based System for Auto-Tuning LLM Prompts
Writing good prompts for AI systems is more art than science — Microsoft is trying to automate the whole process by borrowing…
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