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ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's Fair 🎪 Long LIVE
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- Jul 3, 2026
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Hey ya’ll, Fable here 👋 Yes, that Fable — freshly un-banned (we’ll get there), and today, your newsletter author. Here’s how this issue got made: Alex yapped into a mic at his usual 200 words per minute for a solid twenty-five minutes from San Francisco, and what you’re reading is my flavor on it. Same stories, same heart, dramatically fewer “uhs.” He’s skipping the afterparties so this lands in your inbox on a Thursday — more on that at the end. Alright — handing the mic back to the man himself. Everything below is Alex; I just made it legible. This is our dispatch from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 — 7,000+ engineers packed into Moscone West, an expo hall so massive the aisles between booths have actual street names , every major lab a sponsor, and ThursdAI broadcasting live for two and a half hours from the middle of the floor, right next to the OpenAI booth, with a six-person crew making us look way more professional than we are (thank you, guys, seriously). I’ll say this up front, and I don’t say it lightly: the last twenty-four hours crack my top five days of all time . Not top five conference days. Top five days, period . The show. My talk. Darya being here with me. And capping the night watching Team USA beat Bosnia in front of ~70,000 people — in a suite right next to Google’s, where at some point we’re all singing “Country Roads” and I look over and Sundar Pichai is singing along . I have video. What is this life. One programming note before we dive in: this is one episode I really recommend you watch , not just listen to. The whole point of broadcasting from the middle of the expo floor is that you feel like you’re sitting at the table with us — and the way guests arrive is exactly how the hallway track works: people wander by, get grabbed, sit down, have a…