Hello everyone! AITX Team here with more updates this week.
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In this week’s edition you’re getting:
🤠 Meetup Recap
5 Upcoming Events
3 AI Community Stories
1 Community Highlight
So let’s jump in!
Austin AITX Meetup Recap
Austin AITX Monthly Meetup | July 22, 2025
We had 4 amazing demos this month:
An enterprise-grade toolkit for secure, human-in-the-loop AI workflows with full audit trails and role-based access control.
An AI video production hub that tags footage, automates scene assembly, and turns raw assets into a storyboard.
A 24/7 AI sales platform that finds leads, monitors intent signals, and enriches prospect data right into your CRM.
An open-source, local AI agent that scaffolds, tests, debugs, and orchestrates code workflows entirely on your machine.
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: Thursday, August 14 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CST
Where: ACC - RGC 3000 1218 West Avenue · Austin, TX
What: The AI Middleware Users Group lives by “Learning in the Open.” We explore LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, and the wider AI stack—sharing demos, pitfalls, and wins so everyone levels up together.
When: Thursday, August 7 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm CST
Where: Capital Factory 701 Brazos Street Floor 8th Austin, TX 78701
What:
Discussion Topics:
How cutting-edge research becomes real-world AI solutions
What’s next: LLMs, AI agents, infrastructure, and trends to watch
Essential skills for today’s and tomorrow’s AI workforce
From lab to launch: how research fuels startups
How Austin can lead the way in inclusive, applied AI innovation
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
Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi’s Engineering Department teamed up with the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica to host a free STEM workshop, CODE-AG, teaching local students how AI can optimize sustainable agriculture.
Why it matters: Building AI fluency in underrepresented communities today seeds tomorrow’s homegrown ag-tech breakthroughs.
Need-to-know:
Free STEM workshop on AI tools for farming
Hands-on demos for crop forecasting and soil health
Second annual CODE-AG event in partnership with Instituto
Learn more here.
Former Texas Supreme Court chief justice Nathan Hecht calls for responsible AI use to boost efficiency without undermining fairness.
Why it matters: AI could speed case reviews and improve access, but missteps risk deepening distrust in justice.
Need-to-know:
An 18-month Task Force with RAND will set guidelines for AI in criminal justice
Potential uses include automating document review, real-time bodycam analysis, and multilingual legal aid
Key risks are biased algorithms in bail decisions, opaque facial recognition, and lack of public oversight
Learn more here.
The new law sets transparency requirements, bans manipulative uses, creates a sandbox program and oversight council, and empowers the AG to enforce penalties.
Why it matters: Texas now has one of the nation’s most comprehensive state-level AI regulatory frameworks.
Need-to-know:
Covers any developer or deployer operating in Texas with duties on transparency, anti-discrimination, no social scoring, and biometric protections
Launches a 36-month AI sandbox and establishes a Texas AI Council under the Dept. of Information Resources
Enforcement by the Attorney General with a 60-day cure window and penalties up to $200K per violation, effective January 1, 2026
Learn more here.
Community Highlight
This week we’re spotlighting Isabel Almaguer, M.HCI.
Here’s a bit about her:
She’s a senior UX Researcher at Enbridge with a B.S. in Computer Science (UHD) and an M.S. in Human–Computer Interaction (Iowa State).
Former President of UHD’s ACM chapter and longtime BI Analyst, she’s now working on creating a growing community for women in or pursuing technology in Houston via AnitaB.
You can connect with her on LinkedIn here.
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