Google Patents a Sandboxed Ad Auction System Built on Trusted Execution Environments
Google is patenting a way to run ad auctions inside hardware-enforced sandboxes so that the code doing the bidding can never leak…
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Google Patents a Multi-Stage AI Pipeline for Real-Time Image Restoration
Google has patented a clever iterative training method that progressively teaches smaller, faster AI models to restore degraded photos — with the…
Google Patents a Distributed AI Training System That Keeps Your Data on Your Device
What if Google could train a smarter AI using data from millions of phones — without ever seeing what's actually on those…
Google Patents a Source-Tracking System to Cut AI Hallucinations
AI hallucinations — where a model confidently makes things up — are one of the biggest trust problems in generative AI right…
Google Patents a System That Grabs Abandoned Domains Before Hackers Can
Forgotten subdomains are a surprisingly common attack vector — a company decommissions a cloud service but leaves the DNS record pointing nowhere,…
Google Patents a System That Tracks Intent to Cut AI Hallucinations
AI hallucinations often happen because a model loses track of *who said what* in a conversation. Google's latest patent tries to fix…
Google Patents a Learnable Sparsity Mask Technique for Efficient ML Models
Most AI models carry a lot of dead weight — literally. Google's new patent describes a way to teach a model, during…
Google Patents Real-Time View Synthesis for Streaming 3D Video
Google is patenting a system that takes a bunch of ordinary 2D camera images and, in real time, stitches them into a…
Waymo Patents a Hybrid LiDAR System That Untangles Speed and Distance Readings
When a self-driving car's sensor sees several objects at once, knowing how far away something is doesn't help much if you can't…
Google Patents a Voice Dictation System That Corrects Its Own Transcription Errors
Google is patenting a dictation system that doesn't just transcribe what you say — it listens back to its own output and…
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