Friday, May 30, 2025

May 30, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Friday, May 30, 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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Gotham’s AI, robotics emerges as challenger to Silicon Valley’s dominance after biggest NY Tech Week ever (NY Post) 

  • NY Tech Week kicks off Monday and it’s the biggest tech week yet: With over 60,000 RSVPs to 1,000+ events, New York is showing up! 💪

    • Leading up to next week’s events, Tech:NYC President and CEO Julie Samuels spoke with the NY Post about the thriving NYC tech ecosystem.

    • ICYMI, check out Tech:NYC’s Guide to NYTW, our curated list of events by Tech:NYC and our member companies.

Your guide to New York City Pride 2025 (Gothamist)

  • June arrives Sunday, which will kick off Pride Month. Check out these events across the five boroughs throughout the month to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. 🌈

New Yorkers say they would never do these things in NYC (PIX11)

  • Going to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. Swimming in the East or Hudson rivers. Waiting on an hour-long line for anything considered “viral.” New Yorkers are bonding on a Reddit thread over things they would never do in Gotham. Which do you agree with? 

MicroGrid Networks’ COO on how NYC’s grid can handle AI (Tech Brew)

  • 85% of NYC’s electrical grid is underground, meaning widespread electrification and AI electrical demand would require renovation, permits, and expensive wire replacements.

    • MicroGrid Networks uses lithium ion batteries which charge from the city’s electric grid during off-peak hours (aka at night or in the middle of the day), and discharge energy to the grid when it needs it most.

Madison Square Garden has a famous person hierarchy. It comes down to one man. (Intelligencer) 

  • The Knicks won last night and will play Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals tomorrow evening in Indiana. Should the series head back to MSG (🤞), keep an eye out for which celebs get those coveted front-row seats. 

    • The seating arrangement process follows a “celebrity hierarchy” and factors in several variables (like not seating famous exes next to each other).

    • Most celebs get their tickets for free, except for the most famous Knicks fan. Spike Lee can’t be distracted by the seating games and pays for his seats. 🎟️

Your AI-generated cartoon of the week, conceived entirely by humans.

  • Tech:NYC prompted ChatGPT to create a black-and-white one-panel cartoon.

    • The concept for the cartoon was entirely thought of by a human, and a human put on the finishing touches manually. But AI drew the bulk of it.

Here’s this week’s cartoon. Click on the image for a bonus NYC story!

Submit your own human-conceived, AI-generated cartoon to [email protected] for a chance to be featured in an upcoming Friday Digest!

Have a tail-wagging weekend, New York! 🐕

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