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Ready to scale your gen AI startup? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking applications until July 10 for its 8-week Generative AI Accelerator program, targeting startups building large-scale AI models, autonomous AI agents, or tools for enterprise AI deployment and management.
Selected startups receive:
Up to $1M in AWS Promotional Credits
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Qualified candidates have strong technical foundations, early customer traction, and a vision for market impact. Think you qualify? Hurry, and apply by July 10.
Midpage - The Search Engine for Case Law
At Midpage, we're building the search engine for case law.
In litigation, people's life work is at stake - and nothing else matters. For the past century, a duopoly of two publishing giants controlled access to case law data, relying on manual labor to collect and process it all. We’re changing that by building our own dataset with large-scale, agentic scraping. That's why users spend 40+ hours per week on Midpage. Last month alone, we grew from 8k to 50k monthly visitors.
Launching our MCP for legal data
Perplexity alone sees 4M monthly US legal queries. To provide correct answers, all research agents need access to case law data - including an annotation layer that shows which cases were later overruled or criticized. While the world adapts more deep research agents, supplying them with reliable data becomes essential.
Hiring in NYC and remote
With our fresh capital, we are expanding our team across full-stack, API and agentic scrapers. Our team of 6 consists of several former founders, founding engineers, and litigators. Apply if you have experience with Next.js / remix/ SvelteKit at midpage.ai/jobs, or reach out to me on X!
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in July:
🗓️ Tuesday, July 15th
📍 New York, NY
Tiger One is a 2-hour technical session by TigerData, the team behind TimescaleDB — the fastest Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads.
Hear from the people building what’s next for Postgres. See how real teams are building fast, reliable real-time apps and agents with TimescaleDB. Get hands-on help at the Query Clinic, staffed by TigerData engineers, DevRel, and solutions architects.
Walk away with practical ideas, real answers, and new connections — over food, drinks, and great tech.You’ll leave with real insights, real answers, and real connections.
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, July 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
The Agentic Browser Summit is our inaugural collective of keynotes, discussions, and industry perspectives taking on the most ambitious end-game of software with a goal to improve human life. This is Day 1 of this movement, and we at Hyperspace welcome everyone tinkering, thinking about, or building components for it to come together. If you want to present something remarkable as well, please DM me on X (@varun_mathur).
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🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th
📍 Remote
Hello and welcome to this edition of our AI Dev Tools Nights!
This is a series of events where AI dev tool founders, builders, and practitioners showcase some of the most important tools in the industry, as well as all the work and thoughts that went into building those.
Our previous speakers include Netlify Founder, Docker Founder, Neon Founder, Gatsby Founder, as well as a Google DeepMind DevRel lead.
In this event, we're going to have awesome speakers from Netlify, Mintlify, WorkOS, Google, as well as Sourcegraph.
Food and drinks will be provided. Please note that all participants will be screened carefully.
Register
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Wednesday, July 9
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us at Perplexity’s San Francisco HQ for an exclusive evening with fellow builders and startup founders.
Get an exclusive first look at Comet, Perplexity’s new agentic browser, and explore the latest advancements in our Sonar API.
You'll connect with top founders, give and get product feedback, and have a first look at what’s next in AI search and developer tools.
Expect live demos, Q&As, and time to engage 1:1 with the Perplexity team.
Light bites and beverages will be provideed!
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🗓️ Wednesday, July 9
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us on the evening of July 9th in the Lower Haight for Mediterranean bowls and thoughtful conversation on what it takes to move LLM agents from demos to real-world deployments.
At 14.ai, we’re building the AI-native Zendesk replacement. In this session, we’ll walk through how we leverage TypeScript and Effect to craft robust workflows for production-grade LLM agents. Discover how we integrate these workflows with large language models to enable agents that seamlessly reason across structured and unstructured support data, bridging the gap from demos to real-world deployments.
We’re keeping it intimate, with just 15 engineers, to go deep on agent design, reliability trade-offs, and how to make these systems safe and scalable in practice.
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🗓️ Wednesday, July 9
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us as we crack open cold ones and bring hot takes on how to build low latency, high reliability systems for AI products. This is an engineers-only event, spots are limited.
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🗓️ Saturday, July 12 - Sunday, July 13
📍 San Francisco, CA
WeaveHacks is the agent protocols hackathon to watch. On July 12-13, come to the Weights & Biases SF office (no online component, sorry) to have the most fun building agents you'll have this year. This time, we're highlighting agent protocols (MCP, A2A, etc) and what they unlock.
We bring: A killer office with ultrawide monitors and standing desks, good food, expert judges, a robot dog that yells at you
You bring: Your ideas, a readiness to actually show up & crank out code, good vibes
Will you make a research agent? A personal productivity assistant? A library for other agents to leverage? What's the idea that's been on your mind? Whatever it is, no more excuses. This is your sign to build.
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This Week in NY:
🗓️ Tuesday, July 8
📍 New York, NY
Join us at Fractal Tech for the return of our weekly AI Meetup! Whether you’re deep into neural nets (haha, get it? 🤪) or just starting to explore machine learning, this is a relaxed space to connect with others who share your curiosity.
Bring your latest project, a cool paper you’ve read, or just your questions. Feel free to demo something you’ve been working on, or simply listen in and meet fellow machine learners.
Sign up to present or give a demo here: https://forms.gle/JaTDPa9DWgGu37kBA
Look forward to seeing you there!
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🗓️ Tuesday, July 8
📍 New York, NY
Join us for an intimate breakfast and a thought-provoking roundtable conversation with leading PhD minds from Columbia and accomplished Columbia-alumni founders at the forefront of AI innovation. This session will feature provocative discussion prompts designed to spark deep conversation around the latest trends in artificial intelligence. Attendees will gain insider perspectives on how academic research is driving advances in technology, business, and society.
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🗓️ Tuesday, July 15
📍 New York, NY
The NYC Founders Club hosts their practical speaker series where industry leaders share real-world insights on leveraging AI to solve business challenges. This session features engaging speakers who will dive into how they’re using artificial intelligence to drive innovation and tackle problems within their companies.
If you're a founder, operator, or investor looking to leverage AI to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and gain a competitive edge, this event will give you actionable insights to take the next step with confidence.
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