Amazon to invest $50 billion into OpenAI. If this were an acquisition, it would rank as the third biggest tech acquisition of all time. Behind EMC and Dell, just ahead of AMD and Xilinx. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... #AWS #openAI #agenticAI #tech

Burger King employees to be surveilled by AI assistant that monitors their politeness, among other features. #employeesurveillance #AIagents #CIOsky www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Quantum computing will probably never get a “ChatGPT moment” because while AI is versatile, quantum computing is specialized for a very small subset of mathematically hard problems. www.forbes.com/councils/for... #quantumcomputing #quantum #techtrends

Interesting survey of what some experts think about the present, future, and potential of quantum computing. All of the conclusions here seem consistent with the impression I've got too from speaking to folks in the business. www.arxiv.org/abs/2602.15217

The hype is all focused on gate-based quantum processors But there’s another type of quantum computer that’s seeing commercial deployments in enterprise environments today. www.forbes.com/councils/for... #quantum #ciosky #qubits

So all the Leafs fans are feeling happy for Austin Matthews and his Golf medal win, no doubt?

All I want for my birthday is a shower beer.

What should CIOs take away from the WEF 2026 Global Risk Report? @techjournalist.bsky.social summarizes some insights, including from myself: www.techtarget.com/searchcio/fe... #CIOsurvey #riskmanagement #globalrisk

I highlighted quantum sensors in Tech Trends 2026 with a specific example of gravity sensing. A new initiative from NASA on using a quantum sensor to study earth's gravity field working with Infleqtion, which is pursuing neutral atoms tech. #CIOsky #quantum www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Called it.

#NBA announced the all stars, here's how they split to form 2 US teams and 1 world: ​🌍 WORLD: Giannis, Jokic, Luka, SGA, Wemby, J. Murray, Siakam, Avdija. ​🇺🇸 USA: LeBron, Curry, KD, Edwards, Booker, Brunson, Cade, Maxey, J. Brown, Mitchell, Holmgren, J. Johnson, Powell, S. Barnes, Duren, KAT.

AI sovereignty is about so much more than data sovereignty. It goes beyond compliance and contends with the customer experience. My latest for Forbes Tech Council: www.forbes.com/councils/for... #AIsovereignty #LLMs #sovereignAI #CIOsky

The NBA doesn't explain this at all and communicating the top 10 players in voting returns at "east and west starters" is misleading and unhelpful. Fans are probably expecting these lineups to start at the all-star game now, but that's not going to happen. Here's what's likely:

In my books, the Blue Jays lost Bo the day he cut his hair anyway. #bluejays #MLB

MIT Tech Review has published its 10 breakthrough technologies list for 25 years. It tracks the flops and students also predict future flops. Selected this year: synthetic data for training AI; TikTok's algorithm. #CIOsky #techtrends #MIT

Claude Cowork is a step towards flipping the script on what UI people use to get their work done. Could it be the start of disrupting the enterprise SaaS landscape? My thoughts and more in todays' The Deep View archive.thedeepview.com/p/anthropic-... #Anthropic #claudecowork #ServiceasSoftware

At CES, Dell acknowledged that "AI PCs" didn't create the demand promised. But what went wrong? My thoughts and more in Tech News World: www.technewsworld.com/story/ai-pcs... #AIPC #NPUs #CES

If you ever wonder why Canada has a hard time keeping startups from moving to the U.S., this graphic from CB Insights sums it up. #startups #VC #CIOsky

TORONTO/CANADA WNBA FANS: I am looking to talk to 1-2 SUPER FANS about the importance of women's basketball representation in Canada, and the excitement surrounding the Tempo If you're willing to chat and be quoted, pls REPLY TO THIS POST

How to tell when they haven't watched Heated Rivalry "I'll Believe in Anything" yet.

Surreal humanoid robots are set to begin border patrol duties between China and Vietnam share.google/yxc8GSmNeugl...

The exposure allowed strangers to see unattended children in a playground. #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #ciosky

I obviously had to write about Heated Rivalry open.substack.com/pub/mollyhmo...

In the past month, @xanaduai.bsky.social is the one quantum computing company that's: - Qualified for Stage B of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative - Named as finalist in XPPRIZE for #Quantum Applications - Selected to Canadian Quantum Champions Program Unlocking up to $32 million USD #QBI

"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