Events:

Hello ABC, DataKind, in partnership with OpenAI, ADPC, and Gates Foundation, is recruiting technical builders for a two-day Builder Lab in Bangkok on 11-12 June.

Builders will work alongside disaster-management representatives from 13 Asian governments, using OpenAI Codex to prototype practical AI workflows for disaster response. Example workflows include AI-assisted situation reporting, flood-data analysis and summarization dashboards, and tools that convert field notes or WhatsApp-style updates into structured information for human review.

The goal is to help disaster-response teams turn incoming information into trusted analysis and decision-ready reports more quickly, so they can respond more effectively to communities affected by natural disasters.

This is an exciting opportunity to apply AI for the public good! Learn more and submit interest by 29 May: https://forms.gle/x2D1YkWX5vk7z8c27

In April 2026, Anthropic released its most powerful AI model to date. They also chose not to ship it. Mythos sits with around fifty named partners. The rest of the world is locked out. It is the first time a frontier lab has openly said: we built it, and we are not going to release it.

That single decision is already reshaping cyber defence, capital markets, regulatory expectations, and the physical cost of compute. In the 1960s, mainframes created a world where only a few institutions could access frontier compute. Frontier AI may be taking us back there — only at far greater speed.

Join the AmChamSG Technology, Media & Telecommunications Committee, Cybersecurity Committee, Legal & IPR Committee and Sustainability & Environment Committee for an important conversation on how curated frontier AI is reshaping capability, governance, cost, and the business models built on top of them.

An evening exploring how cybersecurity and AI intersect — AI as a powerful engine for threat detection, automation, and adaptive defense, while also lowering the barrier for cyberattacks through AI-driven hacking, social engineering, and automated exploits. Expect demos, discussion, and ideas worth stealing.

Shiyan Koh shared the Build with Gemini XPRIZE with the community and suggested that ABC members could team up and hold a joint building session around it.

The challenge gives builders 90 days to create a real AI-operated business using Gemini and at least one Google Cloud product, with $2M in prizes across 25 winners. Teams are expected to ship a working product, get real users, show revenue evidence, and submit before submissions end on August 18th.

Use this as a coordination point if you want to find collaborators, pick a category, and build together before submissions close.