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Meet the 2026 SAS Global Partner Award Winners

Turning data into real decisions takes the right mix of technology, industry expertise and execution. Often, it’s partnerships that make the difference. Our partners play a critical role in helping organizations turn data into trusted decisions. In a milestone 50th anniversary year for SAS, it’s especially meaningful to celebrate the […] The post Meet the […]

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From fraud detection to fraud resolution: Building an AI voice agent with SAS Viya and LLMs

Learn how an AI voice agent built with SAS Viya and LLMs can transform fraud detection into real-time, automated fraud resolution through customer interaction and governed decisioning. The post From fraud detection to fraud resolution: Building an AI voice agent with SAS Viya and LLMs appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI

Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection — acting as the high-level reasoning model

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TinyFish AI Releases Full Web Infrastructure Platform for AI Agents: Search, Fetch, Browser, and Agent Under One API Key

AI agents struggle with tasks that require interacting with the live web — fetching a competitor’s pricing page, extracting structured data from a JavaScript-heavy dashboard, or automating a multi-step workflow on a real site. The tooling has been fragmented, requiring teams to stitch together separate providers for search, browser automation, and content retrieval. TinyFish, a

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TinyFish Launches Full Web Infrastructure Platform for AI Agents — Search, Fetch, Browser, and Agent Under One API Key

AI agents struggle with tasks that require interacting with the live web — fetching a competitor’s pricing page, extracting structured data from a JavaScript-heavy dashboard, or automating a multi-step workflow on a real site. The tooling has been fragmented, requiring teams to stitch together separate providers for search, browser automation, and content retrieval. TinyFish, a

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NVIDIA and the University of Maryland Researchers Released Audio Flamingo Next (AF-Next): A Super Powerful and Open Large Audio-Language Model

Understanding audio has always been the multimodal frontier that lags behind vision. While image-language models have rapidly scaled toward real-world deployment, building open models that robustly reason over speech, environmental sounds, and music — especially at length — has remained quite hard. NVIDIA and the University of Maryland researchers are now taking a direct swing

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A Hands-On Coding Tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice Covering Speaker-Aware ASR, Real-Time TTS, and Speech-to-Speech Pipelines

In this tutorial, we explore Microsoft VibeVoice in Colab and build a complete hands-on workflow for both speech recognition and real-time speech synthesis. We set up the environment from scratch, install the required dependencies, verify support for the latest VibeVoice models, and then walk through advanced capabilities such as speaker-aware transcription, context-guided ASR, batch audio

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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-450M: a 450M-Parameter Vision-Language Model with Bounding Box Prediction, Multilingual Support, and Sub-250ms Edge Inference

Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box prediction, improved instruction following, expanded multilingual understanding, and function calling support — all within a 450M-parameter footprint designed to run directly on edge hardware ranging from embedded AI modules like NVIDIA Jetson Orin, to mini-PC

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Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases VimRAG: a Multimodal RAG Framework that Uses a Memory Graph to Navigate Massive Visual Contexts

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard technique for grounding large language models in external knowledge — but the moment you move beyond plain text and start mixing in images and videos, the whole approach starts to buckle. Visual data is token-heavy, semantically sparse relative to a specific query, and grows unwieldy fast during multi-step

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