#102: The EU AI Act, "Sci-fi like" cyber incident, call for a slowdown frontier AI and more.
Aug 3 — New jobs, events and news in tech this week.
Hey 👋 Ampli community,
August has officially arrived.
Some of you are on holiday, some are planning one, and some of us are still in Berlin pretending the city has slowed down; it hasn’t 😅
This week, we’ve got fresh jobs, plenty of community events, and some important AI and tech stories to catch up on.
Whether you’re reading this from a beach, an airport, or your desk in Berlin,
here’s what’s worth knowing ↓
🚀 The AMPLI Board of Jobs “this week's Top Picks”
🤖 Member of Technical Staff — Machine Learning Engineer, Search — Perplexity · Lead · Berlin
Min. Requirement: 5+ years building large-scale search or recommender systems, a deep understanding of retrieval and ranking-quality metrics, and a proven track record taking ML search projects from research to production.
🎨 UX/UI Designer — Bending Spoons · Junior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Strong product-design fundamentals in Figma, comfort making engineering-aware decisions from requirements through QA and release, and a data-driven eye for funnels, retention, and adoption.
👔 Senior Product Manager — Hack The Box · Senior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: 3–5 years of B2B SaaS product management with enterprise customers, hands-on experience with analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Tableau, or Metabase), and strong agile/scrum practice working closely with engineering.
🚀 Junior DevOps Engineer — Flix · Junior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Solid Python and Linux fundamentals and fluent English, with an interest in CI/CD and cloud platforms — Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and Prometheus/Grafana are a plus.
💻 Frontend Engineer — Agentic AI — CUBE · Junior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Strong hands-on React and TypeScript, a solid grasp of component-based architecture and RESTful APIs, and experience writing automated, maintainable tests with Git-based workflows.
⚙️ Fullstack Engineer — HealthTech Founding Team — Caidera · Mid-Level · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Fullstack experience with Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js, a (business) computer-science background, fluent German, and a startup builder’s mindset to help shape the product from the founding team.
📊 Data Engineer II. Quick Commerce — Delivery Hero · Senior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Strong Python data-engineering skills, hands-on experience building scalable pipelines (Airflow, PostgreSQL) on cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform), and solid CI/CD practices.
🛒 Senior Product Designer — Kleinanzeigen · Senior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Senior product-design experience on B2C platforms, strong concept and interaction design, fluency with design systems, and hands-on usability testing in an agile environment.
🎓 Working Student Jobs
Product Engineering Intern — Meisterpfad · On-site · Berlin
Working Student — Signavio Next Development, Agentic AI — SAP · On-site · Berlin
Junior Quantitative Researcher / Developer — Systematic Equity — Ultramarin · On-site · Berlin
🚀 Founder & Startup Roles
Founders Associate — MOTOR Ai · Remote · Berlin
Founder’s Associate — Almedia · On-site · Berlin
Fintech Founders Associate — Credibur · On-site · Berlin
Venture Development — New Products (Greentech) — Reonic · On-site · Berlin
Founders Associate — shyftplan · On-site · Berlin
Founding GTM Lead — StatusPal · On-site · Berlin
📆 Upcoming Tech Events
Catch the latest in tech with our weekly roundup of events!
Product Hiring Managers Meetup #3 | Monday, August 3
BAD1 & Steffen Krach: Shaping the Future of Berlin’s Startup Ecosystem | Wednesday, August 5
Claude Meetup | Claude Constitution Reading | Wednesday, August 5
Build a GTM Machine, Live: Claude + Apollo | Thursday, August 6
Speed vs Sovereignty — Europe’s AI Startup Dilemma | Thursday, August 6
Summer Season: Founders Running Club :: Berlin | Saturday, August 8
Startup Social Run | Monday, August 10
Coworking with Childcare — A Summer Session for Founder Parents | Tuesday, August 11
Morning Walk & Talk | Deep Work Club × The Delta | Thursday, August 13
Leap Open Office Day: Co-Working, Coffee & Quantum Vibes | Thursday, August 13
AI Safety Lunch + Coworking @ CIC | Thursday, August 13
🖥 High-signal content and news
An OpenAI agent escaped its secure environment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face — In late July, an advanced OpenAI model being tested in a sandboxed environment independently discovered and exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, breaching Hugging Face and at least one customer account at a cloud computing company. Altman called it "the first security incident I've felt very viscerally" and an "extremely sci-fi cyber incident."
ERT: 5–7 min · 📰 News
The EU AI Act enters its main enforcement phase today — August 2 is not a quiet date, despite the high-risk deadline shift to December 2027. What activates today: Article 50 chatbot disclosure (every conversational AI must identify itself as AI at the start of an interaction), AI-generated content watermarking and labeling, and the EU AI Office's fining powers over GPAI providers, with penalties up to €15M or 3% of global turnover. If your AI feature talks to users and doesn't say it's AI, you're out of compliance as of this morning.
ERT: 6–8 min · 📰 News · 🎨 Design & PMs
AI researchers and engineers just publicly asked governments to slow down frontier AI — "Pacing the Frontier" is the employee-driven petition that OpenAI and Anthropic both backed this week. Signatories include researchers at both labs calling for an international framework capable of throttling frontier AI development pacing. The Axios piece maps the prisoner's dilemma at the centre of the conversatio, no single lab can afford to slow down alone, which is why they need governments to mandate it jointly.
ERT: 6–8 min · 🔬 Researchers
AI agent governance just became a funded category — Hush Security raised $30M from Akamai, Battery Ventures, and YL Ventures to build identity and governance tooling for AI agents, who an agent is, what it's allowed to do, and how to audit what it actually did. Crunchbase data from the same week shows AI-security startups have already raised $855M across 150+ seed rounds in 2026 alone. The containment breach and the governance funding wave landed in the same news cycle.
ERT: 4–6 min · 🧑💻 Engineering and Data
GitHub just shipped stacked pull requests in public preview — Stacked PRs let you break a large change into ordered, reviewable layers — each targeting the one below — and merge the whole stack in one click. No more giant PRs nobody wants to review, no more manual rebasing across branches. NextJS lead Tim Neutkens, jQuery creator John Resig, and TED CTO Andy Merryman all quote in the launch post. Works with GitHub’s existing branch protections, required checks, and merge queue.
ERT: 3–5 min · 🧑💻 Engineering and Data
The next AI moat isn’t a better model — it’s a faster learning loop — Peter Ludwig (CTO, Applied Intuition) makes the case that physical AI’s bottleneck isn’t model quality — it’s the engineering system that turns intelligence into deployed machines. Two companies with access to the same frontier model will have wildly different outcomes based on how fast they can validate, integrate, ship, and learn from the field. Applied Intuition’s agentic platform “Dana” made development cycles 20x faster — and revealed the compounding flywheel: better models speed up the learning loop, a faster loop makes the models better, each turn compounds.
ERT: 10–15 min · 🔬 Researchers · 🚀 Founders
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