Brian Jackson
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Tech trends researcher and writer. CIO advisor. Raptors fan.
#WeWantItAll
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PBS News
about 22 hours ago
"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
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Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2025 is AI 'slop'
"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.
https://to.pbs.org/4oTxgas
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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
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The sports streaming industry knows fans are frustrated by the system. That’s a feature, not a bug
Fans have had enough of multiplying services and rising subscription costs to watch games they used to get in one place. But they might not like the solution the industry has in mind
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/06ece45d08cc13d8df330e2c45e6502f1055d4ed709381e5e03d2d443a494346/LODHJAEONREFJP55PFWKVOIERM
3 days ago
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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
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It’s everyone but Meta in a new AI standards group
Report indicates that Mark Zuckerberg has other plans: to pull an open source U-turn and make Meta’s best AI models proprietary.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4104560/its-everyone-but-meta-in-a-new-ai-standards-group-3.html
5 days ago
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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
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XPRIZE Quantum Applications Finalist Teams Book 2025 | XPRIZE Foundation
https://xprize.org/news/xprize-quantum-applications-finalist-teams-book-2025
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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
13 days ago
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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
13 days ago
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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...
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Law Enforcement Information Requests - Amazon Customer Service
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13 days ago
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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...
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Celebrating the final AWS DeepRacer League championship and road ahead | Amazon Web Services
The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first autonomous racing league, open to everyone and powered by machine learning (ML). AWS DeepRacer brings builders together from around the world, creating a ...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/celebrating-the-final-aws-deepracer-league-championship-and-road-ahead/
13 days ago
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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.
13 days ago
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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
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OpenAI tops leaderboard of 'Thinking Algorithms'
https://archive.thedeepview.com/p/openai-tops-leaderboard-of-thinking-algorithms
13 days ago
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14 days ago
‘Why not?’ At re:Invent, AWS answers with big step into frontier AI model reasoning and agentic services
siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/n...
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‘Why not?’ At re:Invent, AWS answers with big step into frontier AI model reasoning and agentic services - SiliconANGLE
‘Why not?’ At re:Invent, AWS answers with big step into frontier AI model reasoning and agentic services - SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/not-reinvent-aws-answers-big-step-frontier-ai-model-reasoning-agentic-services/
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Bilal Tariq
14 days ago
9 Launches from re:Invent Season (so far!) I'm Excited About
https://cstu.io/68e5f7
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#cybersecurity
#it
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9 Launches from re:Invent Season (so far!) I'm Excited About
SO much has shipped so far during this re:Invent season -- I wanted to do a quick write up of some of...
https://cstu.io/68e5f7
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At an AWS in Greater China briefing. I assume this stuffy represents the vibe: Panda under the hood, Dragon on top.
#AWSreinvent
14 days ago
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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...
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Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
: OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/27/canada_court_ovh/
14 days ago
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Re: Amazon Nova Forge. Will it really help orgs create "frontier models"? Depends on how you define "frontier model."
#AWSreinvent
14 days ago
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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
14 days ago
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Bring helicopter parenting to AI governance, says Garman.
#AWSreinvent
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14 days ago
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Danilo Poccia
14 days ago
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
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Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open weight models, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models | Amazon Web Services
Access fully managed foundation models from leading providers like Google, Kimi AI, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Qwen, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 3B, 8B, and 14B…
https://go.aws/3XuL5kE
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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
14 days ago
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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
14 days ago
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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
14 days ago
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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
14 days ago
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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
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15 days ago
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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
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15 days ago
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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
15 days ago
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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
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What CIOs need to know about the RSL protocol | TechTarget
The Real Simple Licensing (RSL) protocol offers clarity and revenue opportunities for web content, but has security, compliance, and adoption challenges.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/feature/What-CIOs-need-to-know-about-the-RSL-protocol
21 days ago
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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
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Zoho’s Distributed Business Provides Unique Perspective on Digital Sovereignty
Recent geopolitical shifts have renewed interest in digital sovereignty, and the emergence of AI has expanded the concept up the stack to consider the risks of third-party LLMs. At Zoholics Canada 202...
https://www.infotech.com/software-reviews/research/zoho-s-distributed-business-provides-unique-perspective-on-digital-sovereignty
22 days ago
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The demo fails of the humanoid robotics era are going to be epic.
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about 1 month ago
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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
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about 1 month ago
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Is Trump channeling Insane Clown Posse?
youtube.com/clip/Ugkx76f...
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about 1 month ago
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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
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about 1 month ago
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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.
about 1 month ago
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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
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How executives can counter AI impersonation | TechTarget
AI deepfake attacks are rising, costing companies millions and targeting executives. Learn how CIOs can protect communication, trust and financial security.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/tip/How-executives-can-counter-AI-impersonation
about 1 month ago
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Beer and hotdog every inning.
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about 2 months ago
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The Colonel Sanders dude behind home plate at the
#WorldSeries
must be a
@sportsnet590thefan.bsky.social
plant to support its KFC sponsorship
#bluejays
about 2 months ago
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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
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about 2 months ago
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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?
about 2 months ago
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Blake Murphy
about 2 months ago
The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series
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Oh my God George Springer.
about 2 months ago
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The Fox broadcast calls Kirk "the unofficial Captain of the Blue Jays". They know about Star Trek right?
#ALCS
#bluejays
about 2 months ago
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My recreation of Max Scherzer and John Schneider's mound interaction with Google Veo.
#bluejays
#wewantitall
#AIslop
#veo
#Aivideo
#ALCS
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about 2 months ago
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Howard Beck
2 months ago
Sometimes the timeline calls B.S. in real time...
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George Springer homers into the pink October sunset sky. Baseball is poetry.
2 months ago
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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:
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2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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Kobo made a controller for its eReaders 🤔
share.google/9xxogHqqLHxW...
2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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Where is AI useful in cybersecurity? ISACA's new State of Cybersecurity report shows the top use cases for adoption.
#CIOsky
#ITsec
#cybersec
#AIsecurity
2 months ago
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Yankee Doodle that dandy.
#wewantitall
#bluejays
2 months ago
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