Events:

AI Tinkerers Singapore and Tencent Cloud invite Singapore-based builders to ship an AI agent using WorkBuddy or CodeBuddy. Enter solo or in a team of up to three, choose a Productivity, Business, or Life Agent track, and receive 2,000 product credits to build from 22 July to 14 August.

Projects are due on 14 August at 6:00 PM SGT, followed by a tentative in-person Singapore Demo Day on 22 August. Top teams can win SGD 3,000, SGD 2,000, or SGD 1,000, and Singapore’s top three teams receive funded travel to Shenzhen for the global final in September.

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.

A live recording of the Code Riff podcast at Lorong AI, part of their Off-Script series. Eric Tan and Yaohong Chng talk to Gijs Verheijke, AI Lead at Carousell and previously founder and CEO of Ox Street.

Can an agent run a business without much human oversight? Gijs has one called Maggie running a SaaS that makes money.

We get into his OpenClaw setup, securing agent workflows in production, where LLMs are still dumb in ways you have to engineer around, knowledge graphs versus skills, AI at Carousell, and his move from finance to tech.

Seats are capped to keep it conversational, so registration is by approval. Questions you submit at sign-up shape what we ask. Phones on silent while we record.