Brian Jackson
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Tech trends researcher and writer. CIO advisor. Raptors fan. #WeWantItAll
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
- 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
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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
- 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
Reposted by Brian Jackson
"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
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.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"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
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
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December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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
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.
www.infoworld.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
XPRIZE Quantum Applications Finalist Teams Book 2025 | XPRIZE Foundation
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December 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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
December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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...
Law Enforcement Information Requests - Amazon Customer Service
Find more solutions
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December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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...
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 ...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
archive.thedeepview.com/p/openai-top... #AWSreinvent #NovaForge #CIOsky
OpenAI tops leaderboard of 'Thinking Algorithms'
archive.thedeepview.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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
archive.thedeepview.com/p/openai-top... #AWSreinvent #NovaForge #CIOsky
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‘Why not?’ At re:Invent, AWS answers with big step into frontier AI model reasoning and agentic services siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/n...
‘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
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December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
‘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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9 Launches from re:Invent Season (so far!) I'm Excited About https://cstu.io/68e5f7 #s #cybersecurity #it
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...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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...
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
: OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access
www.theregister.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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
Unpredictable AI agents like teens? Thankfully we have Policy in AgentCore now #AWSReinvent #reinvent
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Bring helicopter parenting to AI governance, says Garman. #AWSreinvent
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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
go.aws/3XuL5kE
#AWS #AI #reInvent #AWSreInvent
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…
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December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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
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
AgentCore Evaluations to test performance a set of standard metrics - either provided by AWS or your custom set. #AWSreinvent
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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
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
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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
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
December 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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