Kicking off our Partner Day @awscloud.bsky.social in London ✨Hearing from John Newson on building a profitable partner business in public sector and Leanne Hurrell about Regional Pub Sec!
Great to see SoftwareOne leaning into digital sovereignty on AWS 🔒 ☁️
success - ready for the beyonce ho-down 🤠
Couples are celebrating in a crowd at a group wedding event. Many are arm in arm, and the floor is rainbow-striped. A headline reads: "Thailand Celebrates New Same-Sex Marriage Law With Mass Wedding." Photo by Lauren DeCicca for The New York Times.
“Today we feel secure and safe and happy.” After Thailand on Thursday became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, couples gathered for a mass wedding in Bangkok. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/w...
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads have been on the rise.
READY TO TWENTY TWENTY THRIVE ✨✨✨
Charli XCX’s “Brat” was everywhere this year.
“It’s no small feat to flip underdog appeal into superstardom,” our pop music critic writes. “But Charli’s next act might present an even greater challenge — how to remain subversively cool inside pop culture’s molten core.” nyti.ms/3ZRHLkg
BEYONCÉ BOWL
Beyoncé has some rogue sporty supporting act but I’m not offended 🐝🐝🐝 #nfl #beyonce
The world’s biggest online dating companies are in crisis, as their target customers, particularly women and younger users, increasingly look elsewhere www.ft.com/content/6f28...
Having to ask Claude to explain something ‘like I’m a child’ to help me understand my masters is really rather humbling.
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all the teams involved! The IMAGINE Grant process takes a lot of work, but you all truly raised the bar. Can't wait to see these ideas come to life 🌻
Mental Health Innovations creating the UK's largest community mental health dataset. They aim to generate actionable insights that will enhance support services and deepen the understanding of mental health trends nationwide.
Kent Wildlife Trust are expanding their Bugs Matter citizen science app globally to collect invaluable long-term, large-scale data on insect populations, climate change impacts, and habitats.
@stopthetraffik.bsky.social is enhancing their Traffik Analysis Hub, to increase the quality and accuracy of the data points, expand language capabilities and integrate open-source datasets in order to drive action, inspire collaboration, and combat modern slavery and human trafficking.
AWS announced the nonprofit IMAGINE grant winners at #reInvent! Our goal is to empower nonprofits to prioritize technology as a mission-critical component of their work. This year's winners showcase cloud technology transforming the biodiversity, mental health, and anti-trafficking space 🚀
WIRED asked Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team about her vision of social media and the future. She says she wants social media to be fun again.
Watch our full #WIREDBigInterview with her here: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Saw an amazing story on @guidedogsuk.bsky.social TikTok today, hardware innovation (smart glasses) and AI coming together to transform support for the visually impaired - such an amazing story
keen to hear your takeaways and how you'll be reinventing ✨
we invent so you can reinvent - closing remarks from CEO of #aws at #reinvent keynote ... can't wait to see the reinvention from our customer and partners 🚀☁️
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#aws philosophy for building more FMs: to give customers as much choice as possible when it comes to building and innovating with #genAI in Bedrock so you can find the right FM for your specific use case #reinvent
UPDATE - 2 more models:
Nova Canvas: image generation model 📷
Nova Reel: video generation models 📹
Both out-performing competitors on benchmarks with #responsibleAI principles baked in
That makes a total of 6 new FMs from Amazon, with speech-to-speech and any-to-any multi-modal models coming soon
⚠️ AMAZON NOVA - 4 new FMs from Amazon, equal or better than ALL benchmarks compared to Llama and Gemini with cost and latency benefits making it highly competitive #aws #reinvent
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, makes a return to the #reinvent stage to explain some of the #genAI innovations Amazon is powering with #aws 💪
How to stop AI Hallucinations... automated reasoning checks in #Bedrock, preventing factual errors by checking factual statements through some complicated maths #aws #reinvent
distilled models now available in #Bedrock : 500% faster and 75% cheaper #reinvent #aws
'Every application will use [genAI] inference in some way' - Matt Garman @ #aws #reinvent
Hereeeeee we gooooooo! GenAI section of #reinvent keynote incoming
How to exist in 2025 … with an AI agent… 🤖 #reinvent #aws
