Friday, August 8, 2025

August 08, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Friday, August 8, 2025 

Welcome to another Friday edition of the Tech:NYC Digest, featuring our favorite five highlights in New York tech this week.

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Artist Stephanie Dinkins has launched an interactive AI public art installation in Brooklyn that invites the community to share their stories (AFROTECH)

  • AI 🤝 art. Artist Stephanie Dinkins’ recent project in Downtown Brooklyn, “If We Don’t, Who Will?” is an interactive AI laboratory and sculptural installation.

    • Visitors can stop by the lab, housed in a shipping container, to contribute their personal stories or reflections through the tech or with each other.

    • The convos are then recorded and processed by an AI system that generates visual responses in real time.

The Governors Island ferry goes electric (New Yorker)

  • The diesel-powered Governors Island ferry will be retired this month, and New York’s first hybrid-electric ferry, called the Harbor Charger (named via a public contest), will take to the water. ⛴️

    • Other names considered for the ferry included Climate Queen, Hybrid McBoatface, and the S.S. Electric Boogie.

    • Our suggestion: Deck:NYC 😉

Op-ed: How agentic AI is shaping health care's future (Crain’s New York Business)

  • Generative AI is helping health care orgs level-up. 🆙 

    • Agentic AI can automate scheduling, billing, prior authorization, care coordination, and remote monitoring.

    • Some of NYC’s top hospitals are aiming to hire more people with AI skills including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

This is the mystery man leaving stickers of beloved pets around dog-crazed NYC nabe (NY Post)

  • Next time you’re in Greenpoint, keep an eye out for all the dogs — the dog stickers, that is.

    • Nick Padilla, a seventh-grade math teacher, has stuck around 100 dog stickers throughout the Brooklyn neighborhood as part of a project he says is driven purely through communal love of dogs and in hopes of spreading smiles. 🐶

This summer’s must-attend nightlife event? New York Liberty watch parties (TimeOut New York)

  • The New York Liberty — ahem, the reigning WNBA champs — are putting together another successful season on the court. Off the court, fans continue to take notice.

    • Liberty watch parties are popping up across the city, and the vibes are consistently positive. 

    • Check out the best places to watch a Liberty game (aside from inside Barclays Center, of course) here. 🗽

Shoot your shot this weekend, New York! 🏀

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