"Slop" is “such an illustrative word,” said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster’s president, told the AP ahead of Monday’s announcement. “It’s part of a transformative technology, AI, and it’s something that people have found fascinating, annoying and a little bit ridiculous.” https://to.pbs.org/4oTxgas

Strange to me that @theglobeandmail.com has a big feature coverage package on sports broadcast fragmentation but ignores the growing use of IPTV in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/06ece45... #iptv #sports #streaming

Meta was never really interested in open source AI. Now it's just being honest about it. My comments in @syegulalp.bsky.social today - www.infoworld.com/article/4104... #Meta #CIOsky #opensource #LLMs

The finalists for the XPRIZE for Quantum Applications are out. 7 teams including @xanaduai.bsky.social from Toronto. Some focused on quantum simulation, others more on improved optimization algorithms. One year left in the $5 million competition. xprize.org/news/xprize-... #XPRIZE #quantumcomputing

AWS CEO Matt Garman on quantum computing: it's for researchers right now, not enterprises. If you spend time on learning right now, it probably won't apply by the time it's ready to be useful. Thinks we're about 5 years away from it being useful. #AWSreinvent

AWS CEO Matt Garman on the AI bubble: if you're a VC that's investing in zero-revenue firms with billion-dollar valuations, then yes maybe. But he's seeing strong signals that enterprises are seeing good ROI on AI investments now and generally companies generally keep doing what works. #AWSreinvent

Digital sovereignty has been a major focus at #AWSreinvent. I was curious if AWS had ever exposed information outside of the US to US authorities. According to Amazon's own law enforcement requests reporting, they explicitly say it's never happened. www.amazon.com/gp/help/cust...

All the talk about reinforcement learning at #AWSreinvent made me wonder about the #DeepRacer league. Turns out last year was the last championship and Amazon is transitioning it to become a managed service, a solution (self-managed), and workshops for ML training. aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...

Blue Origin presenting on how it uses AI agents at #AWSreInvent - 2700 agents running on AWS backend. Including a "simulation and analysis" agent that helps iterate on designs for lunar infrastructure like the TEAREX, which somehow magically converts moon dust into a battery.

My thoughts on the AWS Nova Forge announcement in The Deep View this morning. I get pedantic about the "frontier" model labels being thrown around. archive.thedeepview.com/p/openai-top... #AWSreinvent #NovaForge #CIOsky

‘Why not?’ At re:Invent, AWS answers with big step into frontier AI model reasoning and agentic services siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/n...

9 Launches from re:Invent Season (so far!) I'm Excited About https://cstu.io/68e5f7 #s #cybersecurity #it

At an AWS in Greater China briefing. I assume this stuffy represents the vibe: Panda under the hood, Dragon on top. #AWSreinvent

I've heard multiple AWS employees refer to this Canadian court order to OVH local subsidiary demanding data stored in Europe. What I haven't heard them explain clearly is what they would do if they were in the same situation? #AWSreinvent www.theregister.com/2025/11/27/c...

Re: Amazon Nova Forge. Will it really help orgs create "frontier models"? Depends on how you define "frontier model." #AWSreinvent

Kiro Agent is an autonomous coding agent to help developers improve their productivity. Interesting to see AWS release AI coding tools while investing in Anthropic, which is also looking to compete in this product category. #AWSreinvent

Bring helicopter parenting to AI governance, says Garman. #AWSreinvent

Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open weight models 👉 Including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models go.aws/3XuL5kE #AWS #AI #reInvent #AWSreInvent

AWS announcing governance tooling for its agent stack. AgentCore Policy to create overarching rules for your agents that apply to all their actions. AgentCore Evaluations to test performance a set of standard metrics - either provided by AWS or your custom set. #AWSreinvent

Amazon Nova Forge allows organizations to train their own "frontier model" using "open training models" and then bring them into Amazon Bedrock. Helps organizations make better domain-specific models by combining their own data with prepared AWS training datasets. #AWSreinvent

Amazon Nova 2 Omni looks like an interesting model. A multimodal model that AWS CEO Matt Garman claims is the industry's first reasoning model to accept test/speech/image input and do text/audio/image output too. #AWSreinvest

Time for AWS CEO keynote with Matt Garman. He's responding to the latest buzz about Google's TPU processors being used for AI training. A video claims that Anthropic's Claude is being trained with Project Rainier - a data center campus full of Trainium chips. #AWSreinvent

Now about to hear this session. Apparently they have an AI Agent that automates emerging tech research. Need to know if I'm obsolete. #AWSreinvent

3. AWS has created a metric to measure developer productivity called "cost to serve software." It could help enterprise CTOs better evaluate if it's cost effective to develop new software vs. maintain technical debt. Currently being adopted across AWS teams. #AWSreinvent

AWS Re:Invent insights from analyst track day 1 here. 1. Neuro symbolic reasoning will be key to integrating agentic AI into workflows. 2. Identity and permissions will be key to AI security. A least privileges system will be maximum effort. #AWSreinvent

Could a new RSL protocol help address the power imbalance between publishers and AI companies? There's potential but the plan needs some more teeth. I spoke with @techjournalist.bsky.social at @techtargetnews.bsky.social www.techtarget.com/searchcio/fe... #CIOsky #AIcopyright #AItraining

I wrote about how Zoho's unique perspective as a global software service provider that's headquartered in India gives it an advantage in offering customers "digital sovereignty" www.infotech.com/software-rev... #Zoholics #zoho #AIsovereignty #CIOsky #digitalsovereignty

The demo fails of the humanoid robotics era are going to be epic.

In my Tech Trends 2026 report, I wrote about "Service as Software" as the new business model competing with SaaS in which customers pay for outcomes. On stage at SaaS North, Vidyard CEO Michael Litt had a different term for the trend: Results as a Service (RaaS). betakit.com/is-saas-dead... #CIOsky

Is Trump channeling Insane Clown Posse? youtube.com/clip/Ugkx76f...

Don't think that big tech won't try to use its market power to push out AI agent competitors. They don't want to lose the relationship with the customer, and there's a threat of that happening as AI agents rise in popularity. #CIOsky #AIagents

When I was a kid, if you pressed one wrong number when dialling a phone number, you had to start all over again from the beginning.

CIOs and other executives are battling the rise of AI impersonation and deepfakes. No single tool will save them. www.techtarget.com/searchcio/ti... #deepfakes #AI #fraud #CIOsky

Beer and hotdog every inning.

The Colonel Sanders dude behind home plate at the #WorldSeries must be a @sportsnet590thefan.bsky.social plant to support its KFC sponsorship #bluejays

I'd say this is the sort of "high risk AI systems" that the EU AI Act is talking about. You know, considering that police pointed loaded guns at a 16 year old that was at school. #CIOsky #AIrisk #AIsurveillance

Android now remembers if I turn on WiFi or Bluetooth in airplane mode and turns it on by default the next time I use airplane mode. So what's left for the sanctity of airplane mode? Just cellular?

The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series

Oh my God George Springer.

The Fox broadcast calls Kirk "the unofficial Captain of the Blue Jays". They know about Star Trek right? #ALCS #bluejays

My recreation of Max Scherzer and John Schneider's mound interaction with Google Veo. #bluejays #wewantitall #AIslop #veo #Aivideo #ALCS

Sometimes the timeline calls B.S. in real time...

George Springer homers into the pink October sunset sky. Baseball is poetry.

Users: Can you please reduce hallucinations? World: Can you do AI responsibly please? Cities: Please don't cause blackouts just to train your models... OpenAI:

Guess the Apple Vision Pro isn't dead yet. A new version announced today has an upgraded M5 CPU and comes with a new headband. #apple #augmentedreality #VR #tech

Kobo made a controller for its eReaders 🤔 share.google/9xxogHqqLHxW...

Nvidia ships DGX Spark, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, with Blackwell architecture, 128 GB unified memory, 1 Petaflop AI performance. Runs at 240 W and weighs just 1.2 kg. Price tag: $3,999 USD. #nvidia #AI #developers

A 4 year old Vladdy on the field in Montreal after his Dad's last game as an Expo. www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb... #bluejays #wewantitall #ALCS

Where is AI useful in cybersecurity? ISACA's new State of Cybersecurity report shows the top use cases for adoption. #CIOsky #ITsec #cybersec #AIsecurity

Yankee Doodle that dandy. #wewantitall #bluejays