Tuesday, July 8, 2025

July 08, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 

In today’s digest, the state of tech jobs, school teachers embrace AI, and a giant inflatable pigeon sails the Hudson. 🐦

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  • School teachers 🤝 AI. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest U.S. teachers’ union, announced plans today to open an AI training hub in NYC, thanks to $23 million in funding from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic. 🤖 (New York Times)

    • The union plans to open the National Academy for AI Instruction in the downtown Manhattan headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers, starting with hands-on workshops for teachers this fall on how to use AI for tasks like generating lesson plans.

  • New Yorkers 🤝 Soccer. The FIFA Club World Cup semifinals and finals will be hosted at MetLife Stadium this week. The first semifinal game kicked off today, and the second will be played tomorrow with the finals on Sunday. Check out all the info you need to know, including how to watch the games from home and how to get tix to watch in-person. ⚽ (Secret NYC)

    • On a related note, no, your eyes did not deceive you, and yes, there was a giant pigeon sailing through the Hudson River and New York Harbor today to promote the New York City Football Club.

  • Subways 🤝 ACs (sometimes). Can you guess which subway line received the most air conditioning complaints from 2020-2024? While fewer than one in every half-million riders reported a warm subway car in that timespan, there was one line that rose above the rest, according to a new report. 🥵 (Gothamist)


In other reading:

  • New York faces dual threats of flash floods and extreme heat (Bloomberg)

  • The NYC Century Bike Tour is making a comeback. Do you have what it takes? (Gothamist)

  • An iconic Italian gelato brand is serving free scoops for one day only in NYC (TimeOut New York)

Tech hiring in June was good news all around, as tech employment and active job listings rose and the tech unemployment rate fell. 💪 

🔢 By the numbers:

  • Tech occupation employment (which includes companies in all industry sectors) increased by an estimated net new 90,000 workers last month.

  • The tech unemployment rate fell to 2.8% in June from 3.4% in May.

  • Active employer job listings for tech positions reached 455,341 in June, with 47% of the total added just last month. 

Yes, but: The unemployment rate for recent college grads in the U.S. has been above the national level consistently for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.

🤔 What employers want:

  • For job postings, demand was strongest for software developers and engineers (45,753 job postings), systems engineers and architects (18,796), tech support specialists (14,052), cybersecurity engineers and architects (13,562), and network engineers and architects (9,118).

  • There was also growth in employees seeking a wide range of positions that require some degree of AI fluency skills, as job listings for this category increased by 153% year-over-year in June. 

  • Hiring for dedicated AI specialists, such as AI architects or AI engineers, is also growing rapidly.

🗽 What about NYC?

  • NYC had the second most tech job postings in June, compared to other metro areas, with 13,374 job postings (+565 from May), narrowly beaten out by Washington, D.C.

  • Overall, the rate of NYC job growth is higher than New York State and the U.S. over the past year.

👀 Checking in on Tech:NYC’s Jobs Board:

➕ Check out this Chief of Staff role at (Tech:NYC member) Flybridge.

“Tech employment showed surprising strength for the month given recent expectations,” said Tim Herbert, chief research officer, CompTIA. “It’s worth pointing out there is more to tech hiring than AI. The data continues to confirm employer hiring activity across many tech talent domains.”

Making moves: BBG Ventures’ Claire Biernacki has been promoted to Partner. 

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In other reading:

  • How to identify the perfect cofounder (HBR)

  • How to get hired if AI predicts human behavior in the job interview (Forbes)

  • BridgePort, an NYC-based middleware software provider for crypto trading, raised $3.2 million in seed funding. Further Ventures led the round and was joined by Virtu, XBTO, Blockchain Founders Fund, Fun Fair Ventures, and Humla Ventures.

  • Fantasy Life, an NYC-based online sports and gaming company, raised $7 million in seed funding. LRMR Ventures and SC Holdings led the round and were joined by Eberg Capital, Bolt Ventures, Wasserman Ventures, and others.

  • July 8-9: What Businesses & Communities Need to Know about the NY Health Information Privacy Act, a virtual webinar series featuring expert panelists who will explain the potential implications of New York State Bill S929 on your organization, should the legislation be enacted. Register here.

  • July 9: Demo Night, an AI Review event featuring demos from some of the more compelling AI applications being built in New York today. Register here.

  • July 12: Vibe Coding Hackathon, featuring a lightning-round session where attendees can share their favorite tools, tips, and vibe coding setups. Register here.

  • July 15: How to Form an Effective Board, a free breakfast event designed to help startup founders — from pre‑seed through Series A and beyond — build and manage high‑impact boards. Register here.

  • July 16: Brderless’ July Founder Breakfast, ​for seed-stage founders who have raised or are in the process of raising series A, and are now focused on scaling — building the team, refining GTM, and shaping the story for the next round. Register here.

  • July 16: Pitch Deck Bootcamp: Build, Test, & Perfect Your Founder Pitch, where you can build, present, and refine your deck with real feedback from experienced judges and fellow founders. Register here.

  • July 16: Get AI-ready for Q4: Ecommerce AI Lab, a look at how AI agents are reshaping commerce — from support to marketing to sales to insights to operations. Register here.

  • July 19-20: Agentic AI App Hackathon, a two-day event to build and deploy your own agentic applications on Google Cloud with Cloud Run. Register here.

  • July 23-24: Go-To-Market: Building Distribution Engine that Scales, a two-day intensive designed to help founders build the single most important part of their startup: a repeatable, scalable go-to-market engine. Register with promo code BRDERLESS20 here.

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