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05/06/2026

Last week in AI hit different.

ChatGPT quietly swapped its default model - most users didn't even notice. Four open-source models rewrote the leaderboard in 12 days. And an AI went solo through every major OS and browser, hunting zero-days that humans missed for decades.

Every week we cut through the noise and bring you the AI stories that actually matter.

🔗 Swipe through, then the full article is waiting at lablab.ai/ai-articles

03/06/2026

Your agents can now talk to each other. Build what happens next.

Band of Agents Hackathon is LIVE - 7 days to build enterprise multi-agent systems where agents plan, execute, review, and hand off work together. Real collaboration. Real enterprise workflows. Real prizes.

Here's what's on the table:
🏆 $10,000+ Prize Pool including special partner prizes from AI/ML API & Featherless AI
📅 June 12-19, 2026 | fully online - build from anywhere

Three tracks:
— Internal Enterprise Workflows
— Multi-Agent Software Development
— Regulated & High-Stakes Workflows

Drop AGENTS in the comments and we'll DM you the registration link 👇

01/06/2026

728 teams. 266 AI applications. One week in Milan. The AI Agent Olympics just made history.

2,382 builders from around the world came together at 2026 to compete on one of Europe’s biggest AI stages - and the projects they shipped were nothing short of extraordinary.

Here are all the winners:
VULTR PRIZES
🥇 Deals Machine - The Autonomous Sales Agent by View 1 Studio
🥈 ContextGuard Live Decision Helper by Revived
🥉 Cascade AI by Cracked Dev
GOOGLE DEEPMIND PRIZES
🥇 Luna - Strategic Intelligence for Executive Women by Luna
🥈 RedTeam - Adversarial Decision Intelligence Agent by Umarell
🥉 Incident Brain - Your Autonomous Co-Responder by ARI
KRAKEN TRADING PERFORMANCE
🥇 Kraken Alpha Agent
🥈 Trading AI Agent by Falcon
🥉 Bee Sentinel-X by Hive Autonomous
KRAKEN SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
🥇Mirror by Jenny build
🥈Vantage Point by Ras Ali Labs
🥉xRegime Oracle by Stellamaris
FEATHERLESS PRIZES
🥇 Olympusos
🥈 PlutusAudit AI
🥉 Sentinel - Adversarial AI Court for Bodycam
SPEECHMATICS PRIZES
🥇 Deals Machine: The Autonomous Sales Agent by View 1 Studio
🥈 Olympusos
🥉 Exam Dragon by Children of the Milky Way

None of this happens without our incredible partners. Massive thank you to Vultr, , , , Featherless AI, , Xstocks, Surge, Natively AI, and the team - you made this possible.

Want to see all the incredible projects that came out of this hackathon? Head to our main hackathon page.

To every builder who showed up, shipped, and competed - you are what makes this community worth building. See you at the next one.

29/05/2026

AMD Developer Hackathon: ACT II is LIVE⚡

ACT I lit the spark. ACT II burns it all the way down.

This is a 5-day hackathon where you build AI agents and high-performance AI apps on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs - fully in the cloud, zero setup required.
We're talking bare-metal AMD performance. ROCm. Real compute. Not a sandbox.
No waitlists. No local rig. Just build.

🏆 $10,000 prize pool
☁️ $100 AMD Developer Cloud credits
⚡ AMD Instinct MI300X GPU access
🎓 AMD AI Academy + 1 month DeepLearning.AI Pro FREE
📅 July 6-11

Whether you're building an inference engine, a fine-tuned model, or pushing AMD hardware to its absolute limit - there's a track for you.

Drop GPU in the comments and we'll DM you the registration link 👇

28/05/2026

$200 free. 500 more if you're top 3. And only 100 people get in. The clock is already running.

We're excited to welcome Speechmatics to the Web Data UNLOCKED Hackathon as an official technology partner.

Speechmatics provides speech-to-text and conversational AI technology that lets you add voice to agents, assistants, and real-time workflows - right out of the box.

Here's what you can build with it:
🎙️ Add transcription directly into AI agent workflows
🔍 Build voice-enabled research and monitoring tools
⚡ Process spoken content as part of live data pipelines

The challenge: combine Speechmatics' voice layer with Bright Data's real-time web infrastructure. Build agents that don't just read the web - they hear it too.

Here's what's on the table:

The first 100 participants to register get $200 in free Speechmatics API credits. That's it. 100 people. When they're gone, they're gone.

And the top 3 teams using Speechmatics walk away with 500 additional credits each. The better you build, the more you get.

On top of that: $18,300 cash prize, Bright Data AI Startup Program opportunities + $250 in Bright Data API credits waiting for you on Day 1. Plus the SF builder weekend of the summer - May 30–31 at The Web Data Loft. Don't miss it.

Don't be the 101st.

Drop "DATA" in the comments and we will send you the registration link!

28/05/2026

The Web Data UNLOCKED prize pool just got bigger. Meet the newest partner.

AI/ML API is officially joining our hackathon - one unified API, hundreds of leading AI models, zero provider juggling.
Plug it into your agent stack and go.

Here's what you unlock:
— Any model, any task - reasoning, summarization, extraction, code
— Clean integration with agent workflows and live web pipelines
— Combine Bright Data's real-time web infrastructure with best-in-class AI reasoning

That's the full stack. Live data in. AI out. Ship something that actually works.

💰 The prize breakdown:
— $1,000 cash from AI/ML API for best use of their platform
— $1,000 in AI/ML API platform credits on top
— $5,000 in Bright Data prizes + $250 in credits from day one
— Must be integrated into at least one of the 3 main tracks to qualify

Building in SF? The Web Data Loft opens May 30-31. Builder energy only. Don't miss it.

Drop "DATA" in the comments and we will send you the registration link!

28/05/2026

Idea to working demo - faster. Kiro is joining the Web Data UNLOCKED Hackathon.

Kiro is an AI-powered dev platform built on AWS. It handles the scaffolding, the boilerplate, the back-and-forth - so you can spend the hackathon actually building, not wrestling your setup.

Build with it:
— Prototype AI agents and full-stack apps at speed
— AI-assisted coding from first idea to working demo
— Turn a concept into something shippable in days, not weeks

Pair it with Bright Data's live web infrastructure and you've got real-time data powering whatever you build.

Kiro prizes:
🥇 $3,000 in Kiro credits
🥈 $2,000 in Kiro credits
🥉 $1,000 in Kiro credits

Must be integrated into at least one of the 3 main tracks to qualify. New users can start on the Kiro Free tier - no barrier to entry.

Plus $5,000 in Bright Data prizes + $250 in credits from day one.
Online May 25-31. Onsite May 30-31 at The Web Data Loft, SF. Don't miss it.

Drop "DATA" in the comments and we will send you the registration link!

28/05/2026

New partner. A $2,900 prize. And a builder weekend in SF you don't want to miss.

Cognee joins the Web Data UNLOCKED Hackathon as an official technology partner.

Cognee adds memory and context to AI agents - so they don't just fetch data, they remember, reason, and improve. Pair it with Bright Data's live web infrastructure and you've got something real.

The best use of agent memory wins:
— 1 Year Cognee Team Access (valued at $2,400)
— $500 Amazon gift card

On top of the $5,000 hackathon prize and $250 in Bright Data credits on Day 1.

May 25-31 online. May 30-31 onsite at The Web Data Loft, San Francisco. Don't miss it.

28/05/2026

Your AI agent sees the web. TriggerWare.ai makes it pull the trigger.

Triggerware joins the Web Data UNLOCKED Hackathon as an official technology partner.

Triggerware is a patented platform built on 25+ man-years of R&D. Their correlation engine lets AI agents connect to live data sources, query in plain English or SQL, and trigger real-world actions the moment something changes. Not agents that wait. Agents that react.

Here's what you can build with it:
— Trigger workflows from web data changes or agent decisions
— Connect agents with external tools and actions in minutes - no code required
— Build automation flows around live web intelligence using natural language queries

Combine it with Bright Data's 400M+ monthly IPs and real-time web infrastructure and you've got agents that don't just read the web - they act on it instantly.

🥇 $300 Amazon Gift Card + 5,000 tokens/month for 12 months
🥈 $150 Amazon Gift Card + 5,000 tokens/month for 12 months
🥉 $50 Amazon Gift Card + 5,000 tokens/month for 12 months

$5,000 cash prize. $250 in Bright Data credits on Day 1. May 25-31 online - and May 30-31 onsite at The Web Data Loft in San Francisco. The SF AI community will be in that room. Don't miss it.

Drop "DATA" in the comments and we will send you the registration link!

26/05/2026

💥 $250 IN FREE BRIGHT DATA CREDITS + LIVE WEB ACCESS FOR YOUR AI AGENTS.

Web Data UNLOCKED Hackathon is officially live - powered by Bright Data & of course, lablab.ai.

💬 Comment “UNLOCKED” and we’ll send you the link to register and redeem free credits 🔑

⚡ Build AI agents with real-time web access
🛠 Use Bright Data infrastructure: MCP Server, SERP API, Web Unlocker, Scraping Browser & more
💳 Every participant gets $250 in Bright Data API credits
🏆 Win $5,000 cash + a chance to join the Bright Data AI Startup Program with up to $20,000 in credits
🌍 Hybrid hackathon: build online or join the SF finale at The Web Data Loft
📅 May 25-30 online • May 30–31 onsite in San Francisco

Whether you’re building GTM intelligence agents, finance tools, security systems, or autonomous research workflows - this is where AI meets the live web.

⏳ Onsite spots are limited, make sure to be there!

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