Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com
Working hard to automate myself out of a job.
A man is as big as what'll make him mad.
A man is as big as what'll make him mad.
Pinned
A good starter pack: go.bsky.app/MGaH9TV
LLMs are super useful for a variety of scenarios. AGI is a myth. Those two statements can both be true!
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is challenging the pessimistic predictions that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will replace the human race.
Microsoft's AI Chief, Mustafa Suleyman, says "it's crazy to actually declare" that superintelligence will replace our species
Mustafa Suleyman continues spreading his humanist superintelligence gospel, but says not many AI research labs subscribe to this notion.
www.windowscentral.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
LLMs are super useful for a variety of scenarios. AGI is a myth. Those two statements can both be true!
You shouldn't underestimate the challenge in getting staff to use new tools, even if the benefits are "obvious" to some. Meeting them in the tools they use is key to how Cognizant drove up Copilot behavior: www.linkedin.com/pulse/changi...
Changing Staff AI Behavior Positively
It has now been over two years since the AI explosion - and we've seen a huge amount of energy expended to harness large language models to solve business challenges. What we haven't seen, in that tim...
www.linkedin.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
You shouldn't underestimate the challenge in getting staff to use new tools, even if the benefits are "obvious" to some. Meeting them in the tools they use is key to how Cognizant drove up Copilot behavior: www.linkedin.com/pulse/changi...
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Only 49 miles on it. Very low mileage for a nearly ten year old car.
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Only 49 miles on it. Very low mileage for a nearly ten year old car.
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Microsoft has a new small language model, dubbed Mu. It powers the new Settings AI agent inside Windows 11, and is offloaded fully onto NPUs on Copilot+ devices blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...
Introducing Mu language model and how it enabled the agent in Windows Settings
We are excited to introduce our newest on-device small language model, Mu. This model addresses scenarios that require inferring complex input-output relationships and has been designed to operate eff...
blogs.windows.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Microsoft has a new small language model, dubbed Mu. It powers the new Settings AI agent inside Windows 11, and is offloaded fully onto NPUs on Copilot+ devices blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...
I will admit - hearing this sound when it starts up - I smiled involuntarily.
Microsoft has accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Windows Vista's 😲 The boot sound switch is in the latest preview build of Windows 11, and Microsoft says it's a bug it will fix. Full details: www.theverge.com/news/687417/...
June 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I will admit - hearing this sound when it starts up - I smiled involuntarily.
The WorkLab cofounder, Collete Stallbaumer, goes into further details of the Copilot Agents and the Copilot Wave 2 spring release here - well worth reading in full: www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your window into the world of agents | Microsoft 365 Blog
Check out the Copilot Wave 2 spring release, including AI-powered Search, Create, Notebooks, and a new Agent Store.
www.microsoft.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The WorkLab cofounder, Collete Stallbaumer, goes into further details of the Copilot Agents and the Copilot Wave 2 spring release here - well worth reading in full: www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
WorkLab from Microsoft just released their 2025 Work Trends Index and it introduces a new concept of "Frontier Firms" when it comes to Copilot.
Worth reading in full - these changes are coming right now!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...
Worth reading in full - these changes are coming right now!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...
April 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
WorkLab from Microsoft just released their 2025 Work Trends Index and it introduces a new concept of "Frontier Firms" when it comes to Copilot.
Worth reading in full - these changes are coming right now!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...
Worth reading in full - these changes are coming right now!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...
Copilot Agents have hit a true inflection point. The next few months could help many organizations transform the way they approach tasks like backfilling: www.linkedin.com/pulse/copilo...
Copilot Inflection Point
"I have some news to share..
www.linkedin.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Copilot Agents have hit a true inflection point. The next few months could help many organizations transform the way they approach tasks like backfilling: www.linkedin.com/pulse/copilo...
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It's official!
Microsoft is launching new Intel Lunar Lake versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 with anti-reflective screens — but only for business customers.
DETAILS: https://buff.ly/4glMEsf 💻
Microsoft is launching new Intel Lunar Lake versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 with anti-reflective screens — but only for business customers.
DETAILS: https://buff.ly/4glMEsf 💻
Microsoft launches its first Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs with new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, and they're shockingly expensive
Intel is finally available in the latest Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7, but only for businesses, and for an eyewatering $1,499.
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's official!
Microsoft is launching new Intel Lunar Lake versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 with anti-reflective screens — but only for business customers.
DETAILS: https://buff.ly/4glMEsf 💻
Microsoft is launching new Intel Lunar Lake versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 with anti-reflective screens — but only for business customers.
DETAILS: https://buff.ly/4glMEsf 💻
An interesting thread about DeepSeek - although I still feel strongly that the current control plane of control for AI (e.g. Microsoft Business Chat) is a more important battle than whether GenAI needs X amount of chips to run properly.
Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
January 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
An interesting thread about DeepSeek - although I still feel strongly that the current control plane of control for AI (e.g. Microsoft Business Chat) is a more important battle than whether GenAI needs X amount of chips to run properly.
The ability to quickly flip through accounts is great.
January 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The ability to quickly flip through accounts is great.
That is a large crystal!
Oh yeah, forgot to post these yesterday..
Microsoft 40th Anniversary crystal.
Microsoft 40th Anniversary crystal.
January 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
That is a large crystal!
Enough with Walled Gardens I say!
We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
November 27, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Enough with Walled Gardens I say!
A good starter pack: go.bsky.app/MGaH9TV
November 27, 2024 at 4:16 PM
A good starter pack: go.bsky.app/MGaH9TV
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Related: If you aren't paying for the product, you ARE the product.
If we are not willing to pay for the products we use, then the products we use will use us.
November 21, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Related: If you aren't paying for the product, you ARE the product.
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These infographics clearly show the world-changing, lifesaving impact of vaccines on the prevalence of diseases like measles, smallpox, polio, and pertussis. Vaccines are in the running for the greatest human invention ever. [kottke.org]
The World-Changing Impact of Vaccines
Back in 2015, Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman created a series of graphics for the WSJ showing the impact of the introduction of vaccines in the US. Here’s the infographic for measles:
And for polio:
Vaccines are in
kottke.org
November 21, 2024 at 4:16 PM
These infographics clearly show the world-changing, lifesaving impact of vaccines on the prevalence of diseases like measles, smallpox, polio, and pertussis. Vaccines are in the running for the greatest human invention ever. [kottke.org]
A great thread and why I advise folks to be careful before using blocklists. The safest course is to just block manually and avoid them.
I see people linking to block lists and encouraging others to adopt them.
I'm a bit skeptical: who compiled those? How do you end in there? How do you get out if added by mistake?
I'm a bit skeptical: who compiled those? How do you end in there? How do you get out if added by mistake?
November 21, 2024 at 5:38 PM
A great thread and why I advise folks to be careful before using blocklists. The safest course is to just block manually and avoid them.
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We've done a thing today with the @climicrosoft365.bsky.social crew. Coming soon, stay tuned!
November 21, 2024 at 3:02 PM
We've done a thing today with the @climicrosoft365.bsky.social crew. Coming soon, stay tuned!
My hope is that by Friday I can convince everyone I see at #MSIgnite to get on BlueSky!
Day 3 of #MSIgnite let’s goooooo! Brining you another day of livestream goodness @donasarkar.bsky.social @sethjuarez.com @karuana.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
My hope is that by Friday I can convince everyone I see at #MSIgnite to get on BlueSky!
Am enjoying this session right now.
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Am enjoying this session right now.
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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
Yes Cognizant is here in full force at Microsoft Ignite - all of us enjoying it and educating other partners and clients:
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Yes Cognizant is here in full force at Microsoft Ignite - all of us enjoying it and educating other partners and clients:
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Today in “be very wary of subscribing to blocklists”: Nazis are creating copycat lists to trick people into blocking tons of good folks.
This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.
Do you know who is running this list? Reason for asking is they copied this account's lists verbatim, but do not say who is running their account.
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Today in “be very wary of subscribing to blocklists”: Nazis are creating copycat lists to trick people into blocking tons of good folks.