Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. State and local organizations need to make sense of a vast amount ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Milestone Systems, a provider of data-driven video technology, has released an advanced vision language model (VLM) specializing in traffic understanding and powered by NVIDIA ...

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...

Just when you thought the pace of change of AI models couldn’t get any faster, it accelerates yet again. In the popular news media, the introduction of DeepSeek in January 2025 created a moment that ...

Milestone Systems has released an advanced vision language model (VLM) specializing in traffic understanding, powered by NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, a framework designed to enable advanced reasoning across ...

Xiaomi is best known for smartphones, smart home gear, and the occasional electric vehicle update. Now it wants a place in robotics research too. The company has announced Xiaomi-Robotics-0, an ...

A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside these models. The new method could lead to more reliable, more efficient, ...

Family of tunable vision-language models based on Gemma 2 generate long captions for images that describe actions, emotions, and narratives of the scene. Google has introduced a new family of ...

As I highlighted in my last article, two decades after the DARPA Grand Challenge, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is still waiting for breakthroughs—particularly in addressing the “long tail ...