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April Meetup Recap, Texas AI Legislation Advances, Targeted in Deepfake Scams and More
April meetup demos featured AI tools for strategic thinking, medical education, product management, and cloud computing
AITX Team
April 25, 2025
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 April Meetup Recap
AITX Meetup | April 22, 2025
We had 4 amazing demos come out for this meetup:
Penumbra creates AI tools that work alongside leaders to enhance strategic thinking, operating as thinking partners rather than just task automators.
Their technology structures and evolves with your ideas, helping vision-driven founders and strategic thinkers scale their impact without losing the essence of their original concepts.
MediCast AI transforms medical education into on-demand podcasts, helping burnt-out physicians continue learning without adding to their cognitive load.
The platform converts specialty content into personalized audio that integrates seamlessly into doctors' daily routines, enabling passive knowledge acquisition while addressing the $20B market of medical professionals seeking efficient upskilling solutions.
TriageFlow uses AI to transform vague product feedback into actionable, well-formatted tickets while automatically deduplicating backlogs and even generating code fixes for simple issues.
Designed to reduce triage time by 80%, this tool helps product teams escape the endless cycle of backlog management and focus on actual building, saving countless hours previously spent on tasks like deciphering unclear bug reports and organizing feedback.
Lambda is on of the top GPU Cloud platform for AI development, offering a comprehensive suite of solutions from on-premise GPU hardware to cloud-based services that enable teams to easily build, test, and deploy AI products at scale.
With options ranging from on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances starting at $2.49/hour to 1-Click Clusters featuring the latest NVIDIA B200 GPUs with InfiniBand networking, Lambda provides AI developers with the computing power they need without requiring long-term contracts.
UPCOMING EVENTS
When: Wednesday, May 7 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST
Where: Capital Factory 701 Brazos St · Austin, TX
What: Due to room capacity and building security, it is REQUIRED to register on the event website for admission. (RSVP is CLOSED on meetup). Welcome to the AI meetup in Austin. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agents, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers.
When: Tuesday, May 6 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CST
Where: Capital Factory, Voltron Room (1st floor) 701 Brazos Street · Austin, TX
What: Austin Deep Learning Journal Club is group for committed machine learning practitioners and researchers alike. The group typically meets every first Tuesday of each month to discuss research publications. The publications are usually the ones that laid foundation to ML/DL or explore novel promising ideas and are selected by a vote.
When: Wednesday, April 30 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST
Where: AT&T Hotel and Conference Center 1900 University Ave · Austin, TX
What: The Triton framework provides a hardware agnostic way of programming and targeting GPUs. As Triton becomes more widely adopted, it will be essential in understanding how to write, optimize and troubleshoot the Triton kernel in order to optimize GPU efficiency for algorithms. Join the PyTorch community meetup to learn how Red Hat, Intel, AMD, IBM Research and University of Texas are working on developing Triton kernels.
When: Wednesday, April 30 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST
Where: Project Cowork 10127 Morocco St, #195 · San Antonio, TX
What: The workshop will demonstrate a step-by-step guide to building an AI agent for scraping a website and analyzing the most common topics from it. We will also demonstrate the integration of an explanation tool for the NLP summarization task over a website.
When: Wednesday, April 30 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CST
What:
Learn how AI can be customized for your testing environment
Gain insights into real-time AI-driven knowledge retrieval
Network with Austin’s top QA professionals and automation engineers
Get practical strategies to improve test accuracy and efficiency with AI
COMMUNITY STORIES
The Texas House has approved the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA), establishing a framework that balances AI regulation with industry growth.
Why it matters: This legislation creates a critical foundation for Texas's AI future while protecting consumer rights and civil liberties.
Need-to-know:
Creates a "Texas Artificial Intelligence Council" to ensure ethical AI development
Requires government agencies to disclose AI use to consumers
Prohibits AI-based political viewpoint discrimination and creation of "social scores"
Passed with overwhelming support (146-3 vote)
Learn more here.
The Texas Senate has passed groundbreaking legislation granting property rights to creators of AI-generated images, establishing clear ownership in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Why it matters: This first-of-its-kind state law addresses the growing uncertainty around who legally owns AI-created content.
Need-to-know:
Establishes legal ownership framework for AI-generated images
Complements other Texas AI legislation addressing child safety and consumer protection
Positions Texas as a leader in AI intellectual property law
Learn more here
An aspiring Austin artist was nearly victimized by sophisticated AI technology that allowed scammers to impersonate rapper Fat Joe in convincing video calls.
Why it matters: The incident highlights how artificial intelligence is making scams increasingly difficult to detect, threatening both finances and dreams.
Need-to-know:
Scammers used AI to mimic Fat Joe's face and voice during video calls
The scam targeted the victim's music career aspirations with promises of promotion
Texans lost over $2 million to impersonation scams in 2024
Better Business Bureau warns that creating these deepfakes requires just three seconds of online video
Learn more here.
COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT
This week we’re highlighting Shawheen, cofounder of WorkCore.
Here’s his message to the community
WorkCore is an AI-powered platform redefining how companies hire and manage contract labor at scale.
We automate job intake, match candidates, screen, onboard, and get them ready to work—intelligently, with AI.
Their v1 engine is live and now I’m looking for two founding engineers to help take it to the next level:
1. Full Stack Lead to own product across web and mobile
2. AI Engineer to expand our AI agent and matching capabilities
If you're excited about applying AI to real-world industries overdue for disruption, let’s talk.
You can connect with him on LinkedIn here.
That’s all for now, folks!
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