Authors: Subbu Pazhani and Rob Pratt In a recent post, we demonstrated how Simulated Annealing (SA) can be used to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) by using SAS Optimization. In this post, we extend that discussion by exploring how the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) metaheuristic can be applied to the same problem [...]
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For 50 years, SAS has worked alongside organizations tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges. While the technology has changed dramatically, one thing remains constant: our customers’ commitment to solving problems, improving outcomes and making a meaningful difference. In the first half of 2026, we shared 26 new customer [...]
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Ten acquisitions and more than $13 billion in fresh funding point the same way: the value in AI is sliding below the model, toward the infrastructure that makes it cheap enough and safe enough to run.
Marketers, beware: The AI model you rely on today might not be the one you can rely on tomorrow.
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or…
The rapid expansion of AI‑driven knowledge work is exposing a growing tension: teams are moving faster across more surface areas, but their context is fragmented across tools, personal systems, and ad‑hoc workflows.
In this episode, Tsavo Knott, CEO and co‑founder at Pieces, examines how the shift toward AI‑native individual contributors requires a unified substrate for capturing...
Organizations know AI is important. They’re investing in it, encouraging teams to use it and looking for ways to scale its value. But many organizations are still struggling to turn that priority into governed, scalable action. Leaders are left scrambling to feel confident about whether AI is being used responsibly, creating a widening gap between what leaders want from...
What does it take to move AI agents from demos to reliable production systems? In this episode, Hamza Tahir explores how MLOps principles are shaping the future of generative AI, covering workflows, agent harnesses, fleets, and the infrastructure needed to build durable, scalable systems. The conversation dives into open source tools, production challenges, and how ZenML's new project,...
Your identity stack was built for two kinds of actor. Agents are a third. An engineer ships an agent to production this week. It needs to call an internal API, so it uses the key already sitting in the engineer’s environment. The agent runs. It also now holds every permission that engineer holds. That is...
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Visual AI gets stuck not because the technology fails, but because enterprises cannot move it from controlled environments into the variability of daily operations. In this episode, Brian Ton, Senior Laboratory Manager at Florida Crystals Corporation, examines why building operational trust in visual AI requires more than a successful pilot — and what actually determines whether a...