Hello everyone! AITX Team here with more updates this week.
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We’re excited to collaborate with Kevin Frazier on this monthly roundup of AI policy. Kevin is the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and co-host of the Scaling Laws podcast
What is it?
Every month, he’ll share some analysis of the most important AI policy news, with a focus on regulatory shifts most important to developers and builders.
Kevin puts a lot of work into these so we highly recommend you read them to keep up to date with the latest in AI policy.
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The first update covers President Trump’s new “AI Dominance” Action Plan—a sweeping, consensus‐backed roadmap to supercharge innovation, infrastructure, and safety in AI, with major legal and implementation hurdles still to clear.
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In this week’s edition you’re getting:
🤠 Meetup Recap
5 Upcoming Events
3 AI Community Stories
So let’s jump in!
Houston AITX Meetup Recap
Houston AITX Monthly Meetup | July 2025
We hosted our second AITX monthly meetup in Houston!
It was a great night full of good conversation and breakout groups that raised ethical & equity concerns in AI, explored the gap between builders and domain experts, and shared the tools everyone’s using.
We’re excited for the next meetup!
UPCOMING EVENTS
When: Wednesday, September 3 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST
Where: Register to see address
What: Join AITX and The AI Innovation & Law Program at Texas Law for an insightful meetup exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping public policy and the legal profession.
When: Wednesday, August 6 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CST
Where: TBD
What: Join AITX and Organized AI for a beginner-friendly evening exploring simple yet powerful starter tech stacks. We'll walk through easy-to-use tools like Replit, Gumloop, Cursor, and Lovable, perfect for anyone just getting started with code. This is an interactive event. Make sure to bring your laptop!
When: Tuesday, August 12 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST
Where: Register to See Address
What: AI Product Breakfast is a curated event series from AITX bringing together top technical founders and operators in Austin for intimate discussions on building and scaling real-world AI products.
When: Wednesday, August 20 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST
Where: SHI International 3828 Pecana Trl · Austin, TX
What: A thought-provoking evening where we explore what happens when Large Language Models play like humans.
Featured Talk: “Raising the Bar on Benchmarks: Simulation of Right Brain Games with LLM”:
Discover how word association games like Codenames are being used to test and quantify creativity in AI.
Includes a live AI-vs-AI match and real-time audience interaction!
When: Wednesday, August 13 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST
Where: TBD
What: Join PyTorch ATX this August for a hands-on look at the next generation of AI inference pipelines. We’ll explore the full modern stack—from aggressive model-size reductions like INT4/INT8 quantization and pruning, dynamic batching, paged-attention memory tricks, and multi-node scheduling. We'll dive into vLLM—today’s most popular open-source engine for high-throughput LLM inference—alongside other cutting edge inference stacks.
COMMUNITY STORIES
Tesla and Samsung just signed a $16.5 billion deal to build a facility in Taylor, Texas, that will manufacture AI6 chips for Tesla’s next-generation autonomous vehicles—moving work traditionally done in South Korea or Taiwan back to the Lone Star State.
Why it matters: It cements Texas’s leadership in AI hardware, creating high-value manufacturing jobs and supercharging the local tech ecosystem.
Need-to-know:
$16.5 B investment to establish an AI6 chip fab in Taylor, TX
Chips will power Tesla’s autonomous vehicles, shifting production from Asia to Texas
Facility will drive significant job growth and attract more tech investment to Central Texas
Learn more here.
Texas A&M researchers built CLARKE, an AI-powered platform that processes thousands of drone photos to assess damage levels—producing detailed maps in under five minutes, even with spotty connectivity.
Why it matters: CLARKE supercharges rapid response in disaster-prone regions by delivering actionable damage insights when and where they’re needed most.
Need-to-know:
Trained to classify damage from “no damage” to “total destruction” across hundreds of aerial images
Tested in hurricane recovery, generating assessment maps in <5 minutes
Operates reliably offline or with limited wireless access, ideal for chaotic, connectivity-poor environments
Learn more here.
Starting Sept. 1, 2025, Texas authorizes healthcare practitioners to use AI for diagnosing patients and crafting treatment plans. Providers must stay within their licensure, comply with other laws, review AI-generated records to meet Texas Medical Board standards, and disclose AI use to patients.
Why it matters: This law paves the way for health tech innovation across Texas, accelerating AI integration in clinics and telehealth services.
Need-to-know:
Sept 1, 2025: HCPs may use AI for diagnosis & treatment.
4 rules: stay in-scope; follow all laws; review AI records; notify patients.
Next steps: update record-review and patient-notice processes.
Learn more here.
That’s all for now, folks!
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