Mark Mader

Casper has officially left the building. #Hawks

Just added Gemini Advanced to the mix alongside SuperGrok. What xAI has with Grok baked into the Tesla experience, Google has with Gemini. Standout moment so far: Gemini Live adjusting my Google Calendar in real time — all voice-driven. One single use case this good makes the $20/mo. a no brainer.

Heard from 4 healthy people TODAY who got the Calcium CT scan 1) CEO had 3 stents put in for major blockage; 2) Founder discovered aneurism due to congenital heart valve issue 3) 2 others started on statins to prevent further plaque. Take the CT scan now. Cheap. Fast. Easy. 🤍🙏

With a major push to remove unnecessary red tape and over-regulation in key areas, we could really have a century of crazy building, innovation, and acceleration. More manufacturing, housing, AI, energy, transportation, space, medicine, and more. Excited for Elon’s efforts here.

Congrats @SpaceX for an incredible catch of Starship’s booster. In awe of the team nailing it on their first attempt. 1.8M+ people tuned in live - wow.

The future we want

Smartsheet sharing controls in enterprise plans about to take a huge step forward. Love it when we release something valuable that so deeply reflects what our customers have wanted. Oct 8 ENGAGE Cust Conf.

will be interesting to watch how quickly the other major U.S. carriers follow. inflight productivity about to spike.

Very impressed with Grok 2. Very fast with well formatted, comprehensive responses. Just helped an exasperated neighbor who was troubleshooting a motor that was stuck in the up position due to a hydraulic piston not actuating. Grok 2 produced a concise five step instruction set that helped him get underway in under 10 minutes. His mind was blown. Many people aren’t yet aware of Grok. That will change. Quickly.

This is pretty incredible. Self-driving is the future.

@SawyerMerritt Direct to cell will have a profoundly positive impact on maritime safety. Incredible.

SpaceX now has 90 Direct to Cell satellites in low earth orbit, which enables access to texting, calling, and browsing wherever you may be on land, lakes, or coastal waters.

Thanks @danielnewmanUV for driving awareness and education re the wide spectrum of opportunity presented by AI and those embedding it in their platforms.

First video call on @X completed through @Starlink Direct to Cell satellites from unmodified mobile phones! We’re excited to go live with @TMobile later this year 🛰️🌎

Incredible turnout for the tribute to Buddy Teevens, our coach who had a profound impact on so many of us.

Smartsheet Engage is underway in London! So pleased that we took the show on the road to enable hundreds of EMEA customers to participate, more conveniently (vs flying to Seattle!)

So happy for Lando!!

When we started AWS, we looked at the undesirable situation of developers spending 70% of their time on the undifferentiated muck of managing infrastructure (vs only 30% on what differentiated their customer experiences) and aimed to flip that equation on its head. It’s made a pretty big difference in innovation and developer productivity. Roughly 18 years later, we’re trying to solve another 70-30-like misalignment for developers, where developers are telling us that they’re spending roughly 70% of their time on repetitive and tedious tasks and code. Today, we’re launching the general availability of Amazon Q, the world’s most capable GenAI-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data—and that aims to remove much of the muck of repetitive and tedious coding and data tasks for developers and employees at large. On the software development side, Q doesn’t just generate code, it also tests code, debugs coding conflicts, and transforms code from one form to another (today, developers can save months using Q to move from older versions of Java to newer, more secure and capable ones; in the near future, Q will help developers transform their .net code as well). Q Agents does multi-step planning and reasoning to allow developers to string together multiple requests and have Q implement them. On the internal data side, most companies have voluminous troves of internally relevant data that resides in wikis, intranet pages, Salesforce, storage repositories like Amazon S3, and a bevy of other data stores and SaaS apps that are hard to access. It makes answering straightforward questions about company policies, products, business results, code, people, and many other topics hard and frustrating. Q makes this much simpler. You can point Q at all of your enterprise data repositories, and it’ll search all this data, summarize logically, analyze trends, and engage in dialog with customers about it. We also introduced today a powerful new capability called Q Apps, which lets employees describe, in natural language, what apps they want to build on top of this internal data, and Q Apps will quickly generate that app. This is going to make it *so* much easier for internal teams to build useful apps from their own data. Customers are gravitating to Q, and we already see companies like Brightcove, British Telecom, Datadog, GitLab, GoDaddy, National Australia Bank, NCS, Netsmart, Slalom, Smartsheet, Sun Life, Tata Consultancy Services, Toyota, and Wiz using Q. And, we’ve only been in beta til today. Very excited about how Q will change what’s possible for our customers, and being a part of helping them innovate more quickly. aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazo…

Thanks @collin_hathaway and @mattmcilwain for continuing to educate Washingtonians on the implications of the proposed Wa State 'excise tax' on cap gains. Very much a 'one way door' decision. Its claws will only extend over time. seattletimes.com/opinion/an-exc…

It was an honor to amplify the work of @HiddenGeniusPro at the #USGP through our #SponsorX initiative. Thanks to @McLarenF1 for helping us shine a light on their work to empower and uplift young Black men and create a memorable experience for so many students last weekend.

When Lando met the Geniuses from The @HiddenGeniusPro, a non-profit which supports young Black men to transform their lives and communities. All thanks to @Smartsheet’s #SponsorX initiative. 👏 #USGP 🇺🇸