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Week of June 9th, 2025
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Upcoming Events
🌁 SF Bay Area | Mon, Jun 9 | Harness MySQL for Next Gen AI Startups
🏛️ Washington, DC | Tue, Jun 11 | AI Soirée no. 3
🇫🇷 Paris | Tue, Jun 11 | Fast Break: Exclusive Breakfast for AI Founders by Nebius 🧠
🗻 Denver | Wed, Jun 11 | 🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 Discussion Meetup by Roam
🦞 Boston | Wed, Jun 11 | 🔥 LAUNCH! Boston Launch Party 🚀
🗽 New York | Thu, Jun 12 | 🧠 NYC Demo Night 🚀
🇫🇷 Paris | Thu, Jun 13 | 🧠 Paris Demo Night 🚀
🇺🇸 Austin | Sat, Jun 14 | Lovable x Roam International Hackathon
🍁 Toronto | Sat, Jun 14 | Lovable x Roam International Hackathon
🇬🇧 London | Tue, Jun 17 | 🇬🇧 LONDON DEMO NIGHT 💂🏼♂️ 🧠
🗓️ Hungry for even more AI events? Based in SF? Check out SF IRL, MLOps SF, or Cerebral Valley’s spreadsheet!
AI News Roundup
Written by AJ Green
ChatGPT Gets Smarter: New Business Integrations & Meeting Features
The News: OpenAI has launched new workplace features for ChatGPT, positioning it as a full-service enterprise AI assistant.
Details:
ChatGPT now connects with major cloud platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, and SharePoint to streamline document access and data handling.
A new "record mode" enables users to record, transcribe, and summarize meetings with automatic timestamping and action items.
Admins can now build custom connectors for their internal databases and tools, enabling tailored use cases.
ChatGPT now serves over 3 million business users, up from 2 million just a few months ago.
Why it matters: What might feel like a productivity boost today is, for builders, a quiet takeover. The tools you thought were unique to your product are now just built into ChatGPT by default. It won’t happen overnight — but it’ll happen quicker than most are ready for. One week you’re shipping features. The next, OpenAI ships them natively. If you’re building in this space, you need to ask: what’s defensible when the platform itself moves faster than the market?
Claude Gov for Federal Intelligence
The News: Anthropic introduced Claude Gov—a custom-built version of its Claude AI model, specifically designed for U.S. government agencies. This model comes equipped with enhanced safety protocols and capabilities to interpret classified and sensitive information.
The Details:
Already in use across federal intelligence sectors, Claude Gov is built for high-security environments.
Fine-tuned for lower refusal rates when processing restricted data and bolstered in classified document analysis.
Delivers advanced performance in foreign language translation and cyber defense applications.
Exclusively available for government contracts, maintaining ethical boundaries on use cases like misinformation, weapons, or offensive cyber ops.
Why It Matters: As the AI arms race intensifies within global defense and intelligence communities, Claude Gov reflects a broader trend of AI firms building sovereign, secure models. With this release, Anthropic enters a delicate balance between commercial opportunity and responsible innovation—especially as AI becomes embedded in national security frameworks.
Who do you think the gov should trust more? ChatGPT Gov or Claude Gov?
Recap: Launching the AI Collective
It’s hard to believe the launch was just one week ago. 🥲
The energy, support, and global celebrations have truly blown us away. From San Francisco to Poland, Toronto to Mexico City, over 3,300 of you signed up to attend our global events last week. You showed up across time zones, disciplines, and communities to make this moment real. 🌎
We can’t thank you enough. This is just the beginning, and we’re so lucky to be building with all of you.
Check out our Co-Founder, Chappy’s post on LinkedIn for more about what this moment means for our community.
Premier Partner Spotlight: Roam
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Explore Roam today and transform the way your team works together!
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~ Noah & AJ
About Noah Frank
Noah is the co-founder of Aurix and has spent his career both working at startups and advising global leaders on innovation strategy. His work and body of research focus on AI policy, anticipatory governance, and effective decision-making. When not working to make emerging tech work for all, you can find him making music with his band. 🎸
About AJ Green
AJ Green is a founder, writer, scout, chairman, and respected community leader in the AI and startup space. A former athlete turned tech entrepreneur, AJ is on a mission to make AI the great equalizer—scaling startups, connecting ecosystems, and turning disruption into opportunity. Borderline obsessed with building the infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native companies and the intelligence that power them.
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