Most of the AI chatter this year is about giant models in data centers. Yet some of the most practical progress is happening at the opposite end: tiny chips in rings, earbuds and sensors that must run a neural network for days on a sliver of battery. On November 9, 2026, Ambiq Micro announced heliaAOT 1.0, a compiler built for exactly that job. According to Ambiq's press release, it cuts inference latency by up to 76% and energy per inference by up to 72% against LiteRT Micro, a common embe...
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Embedded AI
Activity Trackers Learn The Difference Between Fake and Real Activity
Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) have made smartphone activity trackers smarter than ever; they have trained trackers to have the ability to detect the difference between fake and real activity.
Insurance companies and health care providers base rewards to individuals who stay active and healthy on the results from wearable activity trackers, among them smartphones. They also rely on these devices to monitor a patient’s activity and determin...
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Smartbox Technology Set to Change Insurance Prices
The smartbox records details about how your car is driven and data is wireless transferred in real time to the insurance company.
MyDrive Solutions, an insurance telematics provider announced the launch of its insurance smart box product which will enable car insurance companies to use driving behavioral data, as derived by the latest data capture technology, to assess the risk presented by individual drivers and price car insurance premiums accordingly.
Insurance companies are implementin...
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