Aug 02, 2025

State of Startups and AI 2025 - Sarah Guo, Conviction

Sarah Goa from the AI-native venture fund Conviction discusses the state of AI, arguing that despite the hype, building valuable AI products is challenging. She covers the rapid advancement in AI capabilities like reasoning and multimodality, the increasingly competitive model market, and provides a playbook for building successful applications, using "Cursor for X" as a framework. The key takeaway is that defensibility in AI comes from superior execution and deep workflow integration, not just the underlying model.

Aug 02, 2025

Useful General Intelligence — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI

Danielle from the Amazon AGI SF Lab introduces a new paradigm for agent development called "Useful General Intelligence" (UGI). Instead of focusing on making AI smarter than humans, UGI aims to build AI that augments human intelligence and agency. This talk explores the cognitive science principles behind this vision and introduces Nova Act, an agentic model and SDK designed to reliably interact with computer UIs, turning the browser into a programmable tool.

Aug 01, 2025

The 2025 AI Engineering Report — Barr Yaron, Amplify

Barr Yaon of Amplify Partners presents early findings from the 2025 State of AI Engineering survey, covering LLM usage, customization techniques like RAG and fine-tuning, the state of AI agents, key challenges like evaluation, and community perspectives on the future of AI.

Aug 01, 2025

9 Commandments for Building AI Agents

A deep dive into the design principles for building effective AI agents, covering the evolution of the ReAct loop, the critical role of memory and learning from experience, the 'build vs. buy' dilemma for tooling, and the importance of abstracting all capabilities—including systems and people—as tools.

Jul 31, 2025

Claude for Financial Services Keynote

Anthropic executives and financial industry leaders from S&P Global, Deloitte, DE Shaw, HG Capital, New York Life, and the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund discuss the future of AI in finance and announce Claude for Financial Analysis, a unified intelligence layer designed to transform professional workflows.

Jul 31, 2025

Pipecat Cloud: Enterprise Voice Agents Built On Open Source - Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Daily

A deep dive into the challenges of building production-grade, low-latency voice AI agents, and how the open-source, vendor-neutral framework Pipecat provides a comprehensive solution for development, deployment, and scaling. Learn about voice AI architecture, the trade-offs between speech-to-speech and text-based models, and practical deployment strategies.