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The Daily Briefing
July 28 · 2026
San Francisco + New York
Curated for Conor ZhangAuto-curated

AGI Summit SF Recap

The July 18-19 summit at the Palace of Fine Arts showcased autonomous agents now directing research, art, and industry pipelines across every creative discipline and sector.

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AMD Advancing AI 2026

A two-day workshop in San Francisco explores scaling proactive agents for enterprise workloads across media production, manufacturing, and logistics pipelines.

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AI Engineer World's Fair Wrap-Up

The early-July world-class technical conference highlighted agentic AI tools for creative computing, from orchestration frameworks to autonomous deployment pipelines.

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Bond AI Workshop SF

Hands-on sessions on July 26 focused on building goal-oriented agents for product design, bridging the gap between prototyping and production-ready autonomous systems.

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NYC AI Agents Showcase

The mid-week demo day at Rockefeller Center lets executives trial proactive agents for business process automation across media, finance, and logistics.

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NYC Executive Forum 2026

AWS hosts a leadership session in Manhattan where executives discuss the strategic implications of autonomous agents in enterprise infrastructure and creative technology teams.

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REFRESH 2026 Festival SF

The arts-design-tech festival continues exploring agents as creative partners, featuring installations that blur the line between human direction and autonomous generation.

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The AI Conference 2026 SF

An ongoing program on agentic AI in XR and immersive systems explores how proactive agents are becoming the backbone of extended reality production pipelines.

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AI Agent Conference Returns to NYC

A large-scale meetup on agentic AI and industry applications returns to Manhattan, bringing together builders and enterprise adopters of proactive autonomous systems.

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Columbia AI Advanced Training NYC

A workshop on proactive agent frameworks for research and policy offers hands-on training with the latest autonomous systems for academic and government practitioners.

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