Google Patents an AI Building Block That Fades Instead of Snapping
Every neural network needs activation functions to decide which signals get passed forward — and the most popular one, ReLU, has a…
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Google Patents an AI That Learns to Draw Your Specific Subject, Not Just Any One
Most AI image generators can draw 'a dog' — but they can't draw *your* dog. Google's patent describes a training method that…
Waymo Patents a Heated Sensor Window That Fights Fog and Frost Two Ways
Rain, fog, and frost are kryptonite for self-driving car sensors. Waymo's latest patent describes a heated sensor window that uses two completely…
Google Patents an AI That Fills In the Washed-Out Parts of Your Photos
Blown-out skies and washed-out faces have been a stubborn problem in phone photography for years. Google is now filing a patent that…
Google's New Patent Fixes the Dark-Face Problem in Backlit Photos
Your phone's camera picks one exposure for an entire scene — which is why your friend's face goes dark when there's a…
Waymo Patents a Self-Driving Car That Notices When Its Own Sensors Are Off
What if your self-driving car could notice its own sensors were off — and fix them — just by comparing what it…
Google Patents an AI That Reads Your Question Before Deciding Which Part of the Video to Search
Instead of feeding your entire video into one AI model and hoping for the best, Google's new patent describes a smarter dispatch…
Google Patents a Way to Run Safety Drills on Its Own AI — No Humans Required
Google is patenting a pipeline that automatically fires thousands of test prompts at a generative AI model — text, images, audio, video…
Google Patents an AI That Learns to Summarize by Whether Its Output Actually Helps
Most AI summarizers are trained to sound accurate — but Google's new patent trains one to be useful, judging the summary by…
Google's New Patent Teaches AI to Find Drug Candidates Faster
Finding a drug that sticks to the right biological target is a needle-in-a-haystack problem — Google is filing patents on ways to…
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