OpenAI Patents a Way to Make Its AI Actually Think Before Refusing You
Most AI guardrails are more like a lookup table than a conscience — the model pattern-matches your request against a list of…
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Amazon Patents an AI Inspection Station That Checks Warehouse Robots for Damage
Amazon wants to automate one of the more tedious jobs in a warehouse: checking whether the mobile shelving units that ferry your…
Zoox Patents a Way to Train Its Self-Driving AI on Situations It Rarely Sees
A self-driving car is only as safe as the situations its AI has practiced. Zoox is patenting a method to manufacture more…
Amazon Patents a System That Directs AI Tasks to the Right Chip Automatically
Running AI models efficiently means knowing which chip should handle which job — and Amazon wants that decision made in hardware, not…
Amazon Patents a Method That Cuts AI Training Time Across Multiple Servers
Training a massive AI model requires thousands of computers to constantly share data — and the way you route that data between…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Shares Overlapping Image Edge Data to Accelerate Processing
When a chip processes an image in chunks, the edges of each chunk are a headache — every chunk needs to peek…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Pre-Loads AI Data Before It's Asked For
The slowest part of running AI on a chip is often just waiting for data to arrive from memory. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Patents a Way to Measure How Far Away a Pedestrian Is Using a Moving Camera
Most cameras can see a pedestrian. Knowing exactly how far away that person is — without a laser or a radar —…
Samsung Patents a Two-Gesture System for Taking Screenshots Inside Virtual Worlds
Taking a screenshot on your phone is muscle memory — two buttons, done. But how do you capture something inside a virtual…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor That Uses Nanoscale Lenses to Split Light for Autofocus
Samsung is rethinking how a camera sensor captures light — not with traditional glass optics, but with microscopic pillars smaller than a…
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