“speak softly, but carry a big can of paint” — banksy

The next speaker is one of the unicorn founders with portuguese DNA. @diogomonica has an impressive resume. It seems that one questions follows his carrer: how do you secure the systems that move real money? At @Square (now known as @blocks), he worked on the infrastructure that moves over $200B in annualized payments. He holds dozens of patents in cryptography and payments, including one shared with @jack. At @Docker, his team built the container security layer that now runs inside every major bank, government system, and cloud provider. He is a co-founder and chairman of @Anchorage valued at $4.2bn, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, and General Partner at @HaunVentures. In the AI era, safe financial transactions have never been so relevant. AI agents need to touch money. Who decides if they can? Join us 23–24 September.

Yesterday we announced our MC and today we start announcing our lineup of speakers. And it starts loud. First speaker: @benjaminbrandt - Staff Engineer at @zeddotdev, creator of the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). ACP is why Claude, Gemini, Codex, Cursor and JetBrains can run inside any editor. No custom integration per tool. No lock-in. One open standard the whole agent ecosystem now builds on. If you're shipping an AI coding tool today, you're building on something Ben created. This is speaker one. We are just getting started.

My friends over at Augusta Labs were first 100% AI company I ever met. They just raised an amazing round from top people (and me). What they do: they work with PE to reimagine and transform businesses from an AI-grounded view. Check them out!

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.

"Vitinha was Paris' best player on the night. He took charge in midfield, driving his team forward and setting the tempo." — UEFA. João Neves in the engine room. Gonçalo Ramos with the first penalty, no hesitation. Barcola and Zaïre-Emery off the bench. 5 Polaris athletes. 2🏆

we're a few months away from this year's edition of lisbonAI. Awesome location and we're shaping up a sick speaker lineup this year.

RL (infra) is exciting. RL-as-a-Service might not be. Some thoughts here🤔🤔:yichuan-w.github.io/blog/ret… after watching the recent wave of RL/Post-Training startups like @PrimeIntellect and @trajectorylabs. Would love to hear any critiques, disagreements, or thoughts from others working in this area.

This is the calling! 💨🐥

Sobra sempre um dia para nos rendermos a estar Lamentavelmente num só corpo

Opus 4.8 distilled Alibaba Qwen 😂 The table has turned to Open Source AI

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Lisbon AI is going on tour! Well, sort of. A few members of our team are going to be travelling and talking about Lisbon AI. - Catch Fred (@f), Nuno (@dscape) and Gonçalo (@goncalossilva) in London 🇬🇧 . They will be there for an YLD Innovate 18th June: events.yld.com/yld-innovate - If you're not in this side of the Atlantic Ocean, Fred is attending AIE World Fair in SF 🇺🇸 from 29th June to 2nd July: ai.engineer/worldsfair/2026 Drop them (or us 😉) a message if you want to meet. Exciting discussions ahead 🤩

If you wanna come to lisbonai and speak come meet us!

A company whose name is literally "AI Slop" spelled backwards raised $30M by itself. We literally live in the silliest timeline.

Even on the day @SocketSecurity announces our Series C funding and $1B valuation, the attackers aren't resting, and neither are we.

Money can’t happiness ? BS I’ll tell you something money can’t buy DDR5 RDIMM ECC 128GB

very interesting work. Excited to see what comes out of this.

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