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Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter—your go-to source for upcoming workshops and events, new podcast episodes, and valuable insights to help you stay ahead in an AI-driven world.

🌟 Featured Event | Building our Future in AI Together: The Latin@ Way Meetup

BrainTrainr is officially part of Toronto Tech Week 2025! Join us for an inspiring evening designed to connect, celebrate, and empower the Latino community in AI and tech. Whether you’re just curious about AI, working in tech, or eager to shape the future, this meetup is your chance to build meaningful connections, learn from trailblazing Latin@s, and discover new opportunities in AI—together

📅 Date: Thursday, June 26 | 6 - 8:30 PM EDT
📍 Location: First Canadian Place, 47th Floor (Vision Talent)

📅 Upcoming Events:

💡 AI for Social Impact: The Masterclass Workshop

Ready to go beyond the basics? Join BrainTrainr for a 3-hour immersive AI for Social Impact Masterclass designed to build on our recent Essentials workshop. Learn how to implement AI tools, workflows, and strategies directly within your organization while exploring advanced platforms like Claude, Gemini, and Zapier through interactive breakout sessions and guided hands-on activities. As subcribers of this newsletter, you can make use of this exclusive code at checkout for 40% off "btsubscriber.”

📅 Date: Thursday, June 19
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
💻 Virtual | Hands-on | Advanced

🎧 New 404 - Policy Not Found Episode:

🎙️This week on 404 - Policy Not Found, Podcast, we’re excited to feature a brand episode featuring Seher Shafiq, Global Engagement Manager of Mozilla Foundation – the nonprofit behind Firefox and the Mozilla Festival. 

📖 Check Out These AI Resources:

Your Chance to Shine in Data Science!
Kaggle’s latest competition — "Make Data Count: Finding Data References" — challenges you to help shape the future of research by detecting dataset citations in academic literature.

With over 40,000 publications to analyze and $20,000 USD in prizes, this is your opportunity to apply NLP, classification, and contextual analysis to improve how scientific data usage is tracked. 💡 Perfect for interdisciplinary teams and open science enthusiasts.

🧠 Introducing Cohere's LLM University (LLMU)
Want to master LLMs from the ground up? Cohere's LLM University (LLMU) is a free, self-paced course that covers everything from transformer basics to advanced applications — taught by the researchers building the models.

Whether you're a developer, researcher, or curious learner, LLMU offers hands-on labs, clear explanations, and insights into how modern AI really works. 💡 Ideal for anyone building or using LLMs.

 💼 Job Opportunities in AI: 

Shopify is actively recruiting talent in AI, machine learning, data science, and software engineering, offering a unique hiring approach: instead of applying to a specific job, you apply based on your skills and interests, and Shopify matches you with the best-fit team during the process. 🌍 Most roles are fully remote and open to candidates across Canada.

🔍 Current open roles include:

• Applied ML Engineer

• Software Engineer (Backend / Full Stack)

• Product Data Scientist

• Infrastructure Engineer

• Security Engineer

• Senior Shopify Developer

• Senior Software Engineer, AI (Founding Engineer)

• Full Stack Web Developer

• Senior Front End Developer

• Data Engineer

💡 AI Tip of the Week: AI Meets Creativity with Google Labs FX

Google Labs has launched FX, a new hub for experimental AI tools that empower artists, musicians, and writers to push the boundaries of expression.

Here’s what’s inside:

• 🎤 TextFX – Built with rapper Lupe Fiasco, this tool plays with rhymes, wordplay, and lyrical inspiration using language models.
  

• 🎶 MusicFX – Generate short musical loops and motifs with text prompts — ideal for sonic exploration and remix culture.
  

• 🖼️ ImageFX – Create unique AI-generated images with editable prompts and real-time control over the output.
  

• 🌀 ParticleFX (Coming soon) – A tool for motion design and visual effects, blending code, art, and interactivity.

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