Sony Patents a Paired-Rollback Storage System for Safe Software Updates
Updating software is easy — rolling it back safely when something goes wrong is the hard part. Sony's new patent tackles exactly…
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Intel Patents a Robot That Guesses Object Weight From Your Posture
Before a robot grabs something from you, it needs to know how heavy it is — and Intel thinks the best way…
Intel Patents On-Chip Security Channels for Trusted Execution Environments
When security protocols were designed for external PCIe devices, nobody fully accounted for the chips-within-chips world of modern processors. Intel's new patent…
AMD Patents a Real-Time Debugger That Freezes GPU Partition Switching
Debugging a GPU that's simultaneously serving multiple virtual machines is a bit like trying to read a spinning roulette wheel — AMD's…
Xilinx Patents Fine-Grained Task Preemption for Neural Processing Units
When two AI tasks compete for the same chip, the more urgent one usually has to wait its turn. Xilinx's new patent…
AMD Patents a Data-Parallel Method to Decompress Dense 3D Triangle Meshes on the GPU
Rendering a detailed 3D scene means feeding a GPU millions of triangle coordinates — and that data has to arrive fast. AMD's…
Salesforce Patents a User-Directed Pipeline for Building Multimodal AI Training Data
Teaching an AI to understand images is only as good as the training data you feed it — and most pipelines for…
Salesforce Patents an Automated Pipeline for Tuning Large Language Models
Running a large language model in production is expensive — every millisecond of inference latency and every wasted GPU cycle adds up…
Salesforce Patents an AI Guardrail Framework That Can Block Rogue Agents Mid-Deployment
Salesforce is patenting a system where one AI agent watches other AI agents for compliance violations — and can cut off their…
Salesforce Patents a Draw-Your-Query Tool for Data Exploration
What if you could find a dataset by sketching the shape of the trend you're looking for? That's the core idea behind…
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