Principal Solutions Architect - Global FinServ @awscloud. Like to tweet about Cloud, FinTech, innovation, travel, food/drink, rugby! Opinions are my own.
Joined June 2011
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Nice race! Feel sorry for @Charles_Leclerc for the DNF, but nice win for @LewisHamilton !
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I bet NYC was buzzing last night. Amazing!
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This is cool…. Massive fan of @HawksmoorTweets and also a fan of @polyaivoice tech! Love two of my favs coming together !
Jun 12
Hawksmoor has spent 20 years building a hospitality culture that takes pride in every guest interaction. Especially the first one, which, for many guests, is a phone call.
At peak times, they were missing as many as 42,000 calls a year, with no visibility into what those callers needed.
Now PolyAI answers every call across all 14 sites, around the clock:
→ 80,000 covers booked
→ Missed call rate reduced from 20% to zero
→ 90% guest satisfaction score
For a brand built on the quality of every touchpoint, the phone now delivers to the same standard as everything else they do.
Hear from Alex Grace-Smith, Hawksmoor's Group Head of Reservations, and read more about Hawksmoor's story: poly.ai/en/customers/Hawksmo…
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So so so deserved. Congrats Sir Kevin !
Former Rugby League player and MND fundraiser Kevin Sinfield has been awarded a Knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours 👏
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Did not expect to wake up to this news….
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 11
HSBC's CEO warns AI will reshape banking jobs. Translation: most banks still treat this as a technology problem, not an organizational redesign. The ones that move now on reskilling will own this decade. The ones that wait will manage decline.
#AI #Banking
ALT Hsbc Ceo Georges Elhedery Warns Ai Will Reshape Banking Jobs
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Excellent time connecting with colleagues from the @awscloud FSI worldwide tech community in NYC this week!
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Jun 11
Amazon's data centers are more than 7x more water-efficient than the industry average. Air cooling most of the year, water only on the hottest days. 75% of the way toward being water positive by 2030. Learn more: go.aws/443bFVa
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Jun 10
About 11 years ago, with our very talented Annapurna team and informed by the unusual scale and insight we had in operating the largest cloud infrastructure, we decided to design and build our own CPU chip.
This CPU chip is now known as Graviton, and is well-loved by our AWS customers. About 98% of our top 1,000 EC2 customers use Graviton expansively. Over 120,000 customers are using Graviton. Meta just committed to tens of millions of Graviton cores for their agentic AI efforts. Uber and Snowflake are deploying Graviton as well.
Today, we released Graviton5 into General Availability.
The reason customers are so excited about Graviton is that it offers about 30-40% better price-performance than comparable instances. This is a big deal at any scale.
But, when you layer on top of how much CPU customers normally use with the fact that AI’s growth is driving explosive CPU expansion given that post-training, reinforcement learning, and agentic actions use CPU, Graviton becomes even more compelling.
Excited for how Graviton5 will help customers. aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws…
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Getting a run in along the East River in between and heading out for drinks and dinner. Hot and humid out!
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Jun 10
Amazon reveals £1bn investment in the UK - 4,000 jobs set to be created, with new £500m fulfilment centre hoping to speed up deliveries across the country techradar.com/pro/amazon-rev…
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Jun 9
Almost every customer conversation right now comes back to the same thing: they want AI that can take on more complex tasks autonomously, not just answer questions.
@AnthropicAI's Claude Fable 5, its first 5th-generation model, is built for that and is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on @awscloud: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ant…
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Jun 8
AWS is open-sourcing Simple Strands Agent, a framework for building more reliable AI agents. Built on model-agnostic design principles, it outperformed popular open-source alternatives across three major industry benchmarks.
More from @FortuneMagazine : go.aws/4g75Yg3
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Getting the ferry back over to Manhattan and what a gorgeous view !
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Jun 7
Love getting the feet when in NYC. Great way to get around, especially in the sunshine. Awesome views of Manhattan too!
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