The biggest — and weirdest —tech coming out of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show, from robots to AI pets

Here are the highlights from the world's largest technology trade show in Las Vegas, including a laundry folding robot and an ...

NBCUniversal’s AI-Driven Vision for Advertising at CES 2026

NBCUniversal CPO Ryan McConville joins the LA Times at CES 2026 to discuss AI-driven contextual ads, Total Impact Live, and ...
IEEE

Enhancing Engineering and STEM Education With Vision and Multimodal Large Language Models to Predict Student Attention

Abstract: Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), including Visual Language Models (VLMs) and Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), have shown transformative potential in ...
Microsoft

TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) trained on large-scale robotic datasets have demonstrated strong performance on manipulation tasks, including bimanual tasks. However, because most public datasets ...
Quanta Magazine

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they ...
IEEE

Florence-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Generative Vision Encoder and Depth-Breadth Fusion

Abstract: We present Florence-VL, a new family of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with enriched visual representations produced by Florence-2 [45], a generative vision foundation model.

CES 2026: Samsung bets on AI mirrors, glass-like micro LED and voice-built routines as LG pushes a “zero labor home” robot

From “invisible” skin scans to pet disease checks in three seconds, Samsung pitches a smarter home—while LG revives Wallpaper ...