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📍 Saturday, July 4 – Sunday, July 5 | Paris, France (Hybrid)
Come build the future of Physical AI, the day before the MACHINA Summit convenes the founders, scientists, and investors defining the next era of intelligent machines.
📍 Monday, July 6 | Paris, France
You Might’ve Missed
Harness-1, a 20B open-source search agent. @patpcj ships frontier-level long-horizon search rivaling Opus-4.6 and beating GPT-5.4, at Context-1 cost and latency.
SWE-Marathon, a 1B-token coding benchmark. @rishi_desai2 asks: can agents stay coherent enough to build Slack, rewrite JAX in PyTorch, or build a C compiler in Rust?
Raindrop 2.0, self-healing agents. @benhylak ships custom models that autonomously detect hidden issues with your agent in prod.
Chai Discovery x Pfizer. @jackdent announces Pfizer is deploying Chai's AI drug discovery platform, with early access to Chai-3.
Codex, do not stop until this kernel is 10x faster. What’s actually happening when you autokernel (@LLMenjoyer).
A 49-point swing against data centers in 9 months. @dwallacewells flags the polling shift as evidence of how politically salient AI infrastructure has become.
Reading the new White House AI EO. @raydelvecc breaks down "Promoting Advanced AI Innovation and Security" as primarily national security and more government, dressed up as deregulation.
A fork of opencode routing through Chipotle's AI endpoints. @thdxr surfaces it: free inference, hold the guac.
Rune, a SOTA memory system for personal AI. @maahinpuri (Anuvaya) unveils a memory layer for Vaya benchmarked against human recall, not context window size.
CV Spotlight: Vercel Ship 26
Vercel Ship 26 is coming to London and NYC — and we’re offering free tickets to the Cerebral Valley crowd!
Ship is Vercel's AI-native, agent-focused conference. One day, in one room, with the founders, developers, and infra teams building the next generation of AI products.
Talks, demos, and conversations on how agents actually get built, deployed, and scaled in production.
We've teamed up with Vercel to offer the Cerebral Valley community a limited number of free tickets. Use code SHIP-26-COMMUNITY-100-OFF at checkout:
🇬🇧 London: Wednesday, June 17 at the Magazine
→ Register in London
🗽 New York City: Tuesday, June 30 at the Glasshouse
→ Register in NYC
If you're building in AI, you should be in the room.
Open Jobs
IQT is hiring a technologist (under the VP of Technology) to lead the technical side of cybersecurity investments for its government and intelligence partners, covering areas like malware analysis, cryptography, vulnerability assessment, and AI for security. Requires U.S. citizenship, 5+ years' experience (top-secret clearance eligibility preferred), and expertise in fields like secure software development, embedded systems, or network security.
Sauna by Wordware (SF, in-person 5 days/week) is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer (back-end focus) to build the agent runtime, sandbox infrastructure, and real-time systems behind its product, working directly with the CTO on a ~15-person team shipping to first paying users. Requires 5+ years backend experience and TypeScript fluency; $180K–$240K plus equity and benefits, with O-1/J-1 sponsorship open for exceptional candidates.
Gamma (SF, in-person 4–5 days/week) is hiring an AI Engineer to own the core AI systems behind its presentation platform (text, image, and layout generation), focused on productizing foundation models through prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning rather than training new ones, plus launching modalities like voice and video. Requires TypeScript and Python proficiency and hands-on experience building and evaluating prompts at scale; $180K–$300K plus equity and benefits.
Want your job in front of thousands of developers?
Contact [email protected] for job placements.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in June:
🗓️ Tuesday, June 9
📍 AWS Builder Loft, San Francisco, CA
Join us for an evening dedicated to unlocking the full potential of open-weight foundation models on AWS, with expert-led sessions, live demos, and real-world use cases from industry leaders including Artificial Analysis, MiniMax, Nvidia, and more. Hosted by the AWS GenAI team alongside leading model providers and developers, come learn how you can build production-ready AI systems with open-weight models. Whether you're a seasoned developer or an AI enthusiast, this is your chance to learn directly from the builders shaping the future of open-weight AI at scale.
🗓️ Saturday, June 13
📍 San Francisco, CA
The future of care is autonomous.
There is no more critical frontier for applied AI than healthcare.
Patients will use AI to direct every part of their own health, and will increasingly receive care directly from AI.
This hackathon aims to push the envelope of what is possible — with patient agency at the center.
🗓️ Thursday, June 18
📍 Shack15, San Francisco, CA
The gap between AI demos and production systems is where most teams get stuck. On June 18 at Shack15 in San Francisco, some of the sharpest AI builders and technical leaders are gathering to show how that gap is being eliminated. Expect a live demo of the classic IDE evolving into an AI-native harness built for speed, observability and scale; a new cloud launching that redefines the GPU cost dynamic in your favor; plus a no-holds-barred panel with AI founders and industry leaders, partner showcases, dinner, drinks, and serious builder networking. This is a curated room.
🗓️ Thursday, June 18
📍 The St. Regis, San Francisco, CA
localhost — Render's developer conference One day in San Francisco. June 18 at The St. Regis.
The patterns of software are changing fast: agents now ship to prod, inference is a runtime concern, and the line between application and infrastructure keeps moving. Spend a day with the founders, engineers, and product leaders from OpenAI, Render, Stripe, Mastra, Exa, LlamaIndex, AssemblyAI, Every, and Polsia, redefining how it all gets built.
Morning workshops capped at ~80 seats, afternoon talks and demos, evening happy hour. If you're building with agents in 2026, this is the room to be in.
Use the code LOCALHOST-CV to get 75% off your ticket (while it lasts)
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📋 Register
🗓️ Saturday, June 20– Sunday, June 21
📍 YC HQ, San Francisco, CA
Win a guaranteed YC interview + robo-dog 🐕 at HUD × YC's RSI hackathon! Spend a weekend at YC HQ building RL envs and agents that make models self-improve at coding, robotics, ML research, gaming & autonomous businesses. No prior RL exp needed.
What to Expect:
24h Frontier RL Hackathon — Build RL envs and agents across coding, robotics, ML research, gaming & autonomous businesses
Talks & Office Hours from Frontier Labs — DeepMind, Anthropic, HUD, YC, Modal, Fireworks, Exa, Daytona, MiniMax + more
Cool prizes for Top Teams — Guaranteed YC interview, robo-dog, DJI Neo 2 drone, Mac Minis & AirPods Max
Built for Frontier AI Builders — Techno-optimists, ML researchers, ambitious engineers (no prior RL exp needed)
🗓️ Thursday, June 25
📍 Virtual
Don't wait for the future—build it.
Calling all developers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, analysts, data engineers and anyone building with AI! Don't miss your chance to skill up with AI, advance your career and get inspiration from industry leaders at the virtual Snowflake Dev Day on June 25.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Tuesday, June 9
📍 The Melody of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Join us for an evening with the Next.js team and the community!
Meet Jimmy Lai, Head of Next.js, alongside Vercel team members for an inside look at what's new in Next.js for the age of AI and Agents.
Whether you're shipping production apps or just getting started, come learn, ask questions, and connect with fellow developers building the future of the web.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, June 10
📍 Chorus Theater, San Francisco, CA
Where AI Verification gets serious.
AI has crossed a threshold where its outputs influence decisions in law, science, software, finance, and policy. But the foundation underneath is still probabilistic — a model that's right most of the time, with no way to know which time is which.
Verification is how that changes.
Formal methods, automated theorem proving, runtime checks, alignment-by-construction, provable agents — these are the tools that turn "the model said so" into something an engineer, a regulator, or a scientist can stake a decision on.
The Verification Summit is the first single-track, technical-first gathering for this field. We're curating it the way the early systems and security conferences were curated: small, sharp, and built for the people doing the work.
🗓️ Wednesday, June 10
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us at Cafe Cursor.
We're taking over a cafe in North Beach and inviting Cursor users to swing by.
Bring your laptop with you and spend some time building with other Cursor users and meet the Cursor team. We'll have some Cursor credits and coffee waiting for you. You can also just pop by for coffee and to say hi!
A bunch of engineers from the Cursor team will be around throughout the day at the cafe. Welcome to ask any questions and share what you're building.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Wednesday, June 10
📍 New York, NY
Join Arize AI for an evening of talks and networking in New York City. Whether you're building AI agents, fine-tuning models, or scaling AI in production, connect with fellow builders pushing the industry forward. Hear firsthand lessons from teams shipping agents today — from architecture decisions to evaluation strategies — and stick around for drinks and conversation with the community.
🗓️ Thursday, June 11
📍 New York, NY
An exclusive gathering for the world's top AI marketing experts.
Hear from industry trailblazers on the future of AI search, explore proprietary research from Profound, and absorb lessons from real practitioners sharing their playbooks.
Speakers include marketing leaders from Delta Air Lines, LinkedIn, Coca-Cola, Reddit, CVS Health, and more.
🗓️ Thursday, June 11
📍 Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
A celebration of creatives experimenting at the forefront of art and technology. Works showcased offer a glimpse at a new creative era alongside a panel conversation with industry leaders.
Featuring a special conversation with Ron Howard.
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