Google Patents a Robot Arm That Steers Itself by Watching Its Own Movements
Google has patented a system that lets a robot arm guide itself to an object simply by watching where its own hand…
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Disney Patents an AI That Tracks Live Shows Scene by Scene to Trigger Effects
Disney is building an AI that reads a show's script, watches the performance as it unfolds, and automatically triggers lights, sound, or…
Salesforce Patents a Scoring System for AI Agents Handling Customer Service Tasks
Before you trust an AI agent to handle your customer support queue, someone has to figure out whether it's actually any good…
Nvidia Patent: Selecting Unique Training Data Reduces Neural Network Learning Costs
Training an AI model requires tuning dozens of settings before real learning even begins. Nvidia has filed a patent that tries to…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Groups Similar Photos Into Stacks
Your camera roll is a mess of near-identical shots, and Microsoft wants to fix that without asking you to do any sorting…
Salesforce Patents a Way to Keep Business AI Chatbots On-Topic
AI chatbots deployed for business use have a persistent problem: they wander. A customer-service bot trained to handle billing questions will, if…
Qualcomm Patent Reimagines the Math Behind AI Softmax Functions with FlexMax
Deep inside almost every AI model is a math function called softmax that turns raw scores into probabilities. Qualcomm thinks the version…
Adobe Patents a System That Uses Competitor Search Rankings to Write Your Website Content
Adobe is patenting a system that watches where your competitors rank on Google, spots the gaps, and then uses AI to automatically…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Show Your Car From Camera Angles That Don't Exist
What if your car's parking camera could show you an angle it doesn't actually have a lens for? Nvidia is patenting a…
Microsoft Files Patent to Catch AI Hallucinations by Verifying Facts Against Source Data
AI models can confidently generate wrong answers, and that's a real problem when the output is a medical summary or a legal…
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