Google Patents a Structured Reasoning System for LLM Tool Calls
Before a smart AI assistant books your flight or searches for an apartment, it needs to figure out exactly which tool to…
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Waymo Patents a Two-Stage AI Model for Predicting Hidden Pedestrians
A parked bus blocks your view of the crosswalk ahead — and a child might be about to step out. Waymo's latest…
Google Patents a Simplified Filter Derivation Method for Hardware Video Codecs
Video codecs can predict color information from brightness data with impressive accuracy — but the math is often too slow for dedicated…
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…
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…
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