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Friday, September 11, 2026 · San Francisco

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— Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024

Today in SF

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  • On now

    Robotics & World Models Reading Club 28: Booster T2: The Next Frontier of Open Humanoid Robotics. SF 9/12

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Grok Bot Cotonou Hackathon (Virtual)

    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89863318636?pwd=W3rno7wUa8OucAT8W502bCmGkNqtTW.1 · Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Tech Weekend September 10-11, 2026 | Menlo Park | Silicon Valley

    Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park · $99

  • On now

    Agent Games: Agents Gone Wild

    Free · Approval required

  • 3:00 AM

    OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-NFKmuFKnROzlGnE OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows Most people use AI in a simple loop: ask a question, get an answer, then ask another question. But that is only a small part of what these tools can do.

    Free · Approval required

  • 3:30 AM

    AI but make it work

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-OfOKJItu8R18oBR AI but make it work is a 60-minute online workshop where you turn one recurring task into an agent that does it for you, using nothing but the chat tool already open in your browser.

    Free

  • 8:30 AM

    Techsuyo 2026: Human-Centered AI

    Venture Dock, Palo Alto · $59 · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    K-AI Tech Week @ Silicon Valley

    1). About K-AI Tech Week @ Silicon Valley 2026 2). Overview - Title: K-AI Tech Week @ Silicon Valley 2026 - Date & Time: September 11 (Friday), 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (PDT) - Venue: Santa Clara Marriott Hotel, California Ballroom and Hall of Cities - Hosts: # Ministry of Science and…

    Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara · Free

This Week in Tech

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  • Today · 9:00 AM

    Cyber X AI Reading Group

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-nW47wQHHCKqjBId This week’s AI x Cyber reading group will discuss RAND’s 2024 Security Levels (SL) framework for protecting frontier AI model weights from theft and misuse.

    Free

  • Today · 10:00 AM

    Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy

    Come to European Startup Embassy, tell us what you're working on, and get things done before the weekend. Usually we grab a group lunch at Cafe Centro around 1:00 PM. Coffee is on us.

    European Startup Embassy · Free · Approval required

  • Today · 12:00 PM

    World Models with NVIDIA Cosmos: Physical AI - AI Build & Learn

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-MS7SYg4UcWb8mLv Welcome to AI Build & Learn, a weekly AI engineering stream where we pick a new topic and learn by building together.

    Free

  • Today · 5:30 PM

    Rethinking Your Career in the AI Era | Augmented Intelligence

    Career change in the AI era doesn't have to be theoretical. Join us for an evening fireside chat built for anyone rethinking their career path in the age of AI - not just engineers and technologists, but people across every role and background.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 8:00 AM

    Berkeley Ruby Early Birds

    Royal Ground Coffee, Berkeley · Free

  • Tomorrow · 9:00 AM

    Homecoming AI Educate Hackathon

    🛑 School is back. The tools that will actually teach are being built this weekend. Every classroom, every campus, every learner is asking the same question in 2026: what does AI change about how we teach and learn? Not the demos. The daily work.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 9:00 AM

    CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops Hackathon with Weights & Biases and AGI House

    About the event Come plug in and supercharge at our premiere CoreWeave hackathon! If you’ve had an idea for an autonomous loop that’s been burning away at you, this heavily-resourced hack is for you to make it happen.

    400 Alabama St ste 202 · Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 9:30 AM

    Founders Running Club: SF

    Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We'll run 5 or 10km at your conversational pace.

    Maritime Museum · Free

  • Tomorrow · 9:30 AM

    Open Model Hack - Gradient x Google Deepmind

    Open models are improving faster than most teams can evaluate them. Every release introduces new capabilities, new tradeoffs, and new decisions around inference, fine-tuning, serving, and production performance.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 10:00 AM

    Bayview 3rd Street Cleanup

    Join the Civic Joy Fund, Refuse Refuse, SF Public Works, and the Bayview community for a friendly neighborhood cleanup!

    All Good Pizza, Bayview · Free

  • Tomorrow · 11:00 AM

    AI Agents Workshop

    We welcome you to a free, intensive one-day workshop: a guided tour of how modern AI agents are designed, connected, evaluated, and governed. Participants will learn about: Foundations of AI Agents Agentic Design Patterns Single vs Multi-agent Systems Harness: The Runtime that…

    SupportVectors, Fremont · Free

  • Tomorrow · 1:00 PM

    AI Safety Summit at Stanford

    A focused half-day forum bringing together frontier AI labs, researchers, builders, investors, and policymakers to examine one increasingly urgent question: As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, how do we ensure it remains safe, controllable, and aligned with human…

    Stanford, Stanford · Free · Approval required

The Weekend

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  • Sep

    11

    Data & AI Hackathon: SF

    9:30 AM · Free

  • Sep

    11

    Beta x Alibaba Cloud x AMD AI Agent Hackathon Demo Day

    1:00 PM · 555 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto · Free

  • Sep

    11

    Breaking into the US for Korean founders @ K-Startup Center

    2:00 PM · 100 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park · Free

  • Sep

    11

    Arāya Sessions: AI & Fundraising

    3:00 PM · Free

  • Sep

    11

    All Aboard with Transit CEOs

    3:00 PM · Oakland, Oakland · Free

  • Sep

    11

    neocomputing niche tech meetup - jujutsu and version control of the future

    5:00 PM · Sports Basement Presidio · Free

Plan Ahead

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  • Sep

    18

    Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy

    10:00 AM · European Startup Embassy · Free

  • Sep

    18

    Founder Office Hours + Drink Drop ☕🐾

    11:00 AM · Corgi Cafe · Free

  • Sep

    18

    Samosas & Chai: IIT Founders + Tech Leaders Mixer

    4:00 PM · 201 Spear St, Financial District · Free

  • Sep

    18

    The AI Future of Healthcare: Voice Edition

    6:00 PM · Entrepreneurs First · Free

  • Sep

    19

    Dream AI Hackathon 2026

    9:00 AM · Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀 · Free

  • Sep

    24

    Founders Meetup - San Francisco

    5:00 PM · Corgi Cafe · Free

  • Sep

    24

    AI Applied in Cybersecurity Lightning Talks

    5:00 PM · Nutanix, San Jose · Free

  • Sep

    24

    Building active-active, multi-cloud systems

    6:00 PM · 150 Pacific Ave · Free

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