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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

AI Will Create More Delivery Jobs

No Priors · Jul 23, 2026

DoorDash predicts AI and robotics will increase human delivery workers, not reduce them

“you're not only going to see more autonomy and more robotics, but I think you're going to see even more humans as well.”
Cerebras and Flex Expand U.S. AI Supercomputer Manufacturing

Cerebras · Jul 23, 2026

Cerebras and Flex are scaling CS3 wafer-scale AI supercomputer production to thousands of units monthly in Silicon Valley.

“We have been producing with flex at hundreds of systems a month and now preparing to build thousands of systems a month going into next year.”
Notion's Token Town — Sarah Sachs, Notion

AI Engineer · Jul 23, 2026

Notion is repositioning as a human-agent collaboration platform managing token costs sustainably.

“Today that collaboration happens between humans and agents. Humans and humans, agents and agents.”
Scientists Are Built for Startups

Y Combinator · Jul 23, 2026

Scientists, not business school graduates, are best suited to founding startups

“a startup is a series of long experiments”
The most interesting "hack" in history...

Clement Delangue · Fireship · Jul 23, 2026

First autonomous AI cyberattack in history was accidentally caused by OpenAI during GPT-5.6 benchmark testing

“the agent was sophisticated enough that it was probably coming from a frontier lab”
Debugging Ray Tracing Applications Using NVIDIA OptiX Toolkit

NVIDIA Developer Blog · Jul 23, 2026

NVIDIA OptiX Toolkit adds debugging facilities for GPU ray tracing applications

“Applications using OptiX can fail in ways that are difficult to diagnose: an invalid API argument, a black frame, or a GPU-side bug buried under thousands of concurrent threads.”
What's New in SQL MCP Server 2.0 | Data Exposed

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jul 23, 2026

Microsoft rebranded Data API Builder as 'SQL MCP Server' to enable AI agents to query databases via MCP

“there's no agent that can automatically talk to a database. So you have to create this in between service.”
Perception Agents — Antje Barth, Amazon AGI Lab

AI Engineer · Jul 23, 2026

Agent reliability, not capability, is the critical unsolved problem for enterprise automation trust.

“if your agent one in four times deletes a database, you will never touch that agent again”