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🟣 Sunday Special — Your AI Events, Learning, and Career Briefing
Issue #74 ⏱ 5-min read
Hello AI Enthusiasts,
U.S. software job postings are up 23.8% from a year ago. Could your next AI opportunity start with a skill you already have?
This week: remote AI roles, practical courses and two hackathons with $150,000 in combined prizes.
👇 Also: a free Monday event and how Gemini turned a simple brief into a finished video.
Opportunities checked November 14. Confirm availability, eligibility and terms before applying or registering
📊 The Big Picture
Software job postings are rising again
Indeed Hiring Lab’s November 12 report found U.S. software-development postings rose 23.8% year over year, compared with 3.1% across all postings, through October 23.
Image source: 2026 Q3 US Tech Labor Market Update - Indeed Hiring Lab
The catch: software postings remained 19.2% below February 2020 levels. These are postings—not completed hires or proof that AI caused the growth.
Your move: Compare requirements across three jobs that interest you. Look for a recurring skill before choosing your next course.
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Get cited by AI. Get more inbound leads.
"How did you hear about us?" More and more, the answer is ChatGPT.
Buyers ask AI who to hire and what to use, then contact the companies it names. A carpet dyeing company landed a large commercial customer that found it through ChatGPT. It's a client of Impact IQ Marketing, an agency that uses ChatFeatured.
ChatFeatured gets you cited:
See where AI recommends you, engine by engine, and where it leaves you out.
Get the content that earns the citation written and published for you.
Track the AI traffic and conversions it brings.
Bob's Your Uncle went from invisible to first in ChatGPT, with AI visibility up from 7% to 22% in 90 days.
💼 Remote Career Picks
Get paid to spot problems in AI images
AI Image Specialist · OpenTrain listing
U.S. only · Part-time contract · $21–$45/hour
Compare original images with AI-generated versions and explain problems with accuracy, composition and consistency.
Put your security experience to work on AI
GenAI Security Evaluation Engineer · OpenTrain listing
Worldwide remote · Part-time contract · Up to two weeks
Build code examples to test whether security tools catch vulnerabilities in AI applications.
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See what's really happening in every deal
Aligned shows you what buyers are doing between meetings inside your most important deals then surfaces the risks, openings, and next steps. No more guessing where a deal stands or finding out a champion went quiet too late. Just real visibility, so you can act before it's too late.
📘 From The AI Entrepreneurs
Can AI tell a suggestion from an assignment?
“Maybe Priya could review it” isn’t a confirmed task.
We tested Claude with meeting notes, caught unsupported assumptions and turned the results into an Excel tracker.
Get the two prompts, screenshots and steps to try it yourself.
No coding or meeting bot required.
🧠 Builder Signal
From a simple brief to a finished video
Using a custom skill and a short brief, Gemini 4 Hydrogen created a sizzle reel about the element hydrogen—sourcing public-domain archival footage, editing clips and adding narration.
Try this: Pick a topic and write a brief for a 30-second explainer. Ask AI to plan the scenes, source reusable footage and draft the narration.
Built something useful with AI? Reply with a link, who it helps and what you learned. We may feature your project in a future issue.
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Catch bugs and errors with project monitoring
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🏆 Build Toward a Deadline
Build a better workday with Atlassian
Codegeist 2026 · Online · $120,000 cash prize pool
Deadline: December 22, noon Pacific / 3 PM Eastern
Build an app on Atlassian Forge that connects with tools such as Jira, Confluence or Rovo. Help teams find information, coordinate work or make better decisions.
Build AI that works on-device and in the cloud
Google #BuildHybridAI · Online · $30,000 cash prize pool
Deadline: November 30, 2 PM Pacific / 5 PM Eastern
Use Firebase AI Logic to build an app that runs prompts on-device when supported and falls back to the cloud.
📅 Events to Watch
💻 Tomorrow: MLOps World’s free virtual day
November 16 · Online · Free
Join from home ahead of the November 17–18 Austin summit, which focuses on moving AI, machine learning and agents into production.
The AI Leadership Summit
November 17–18 · New York
Executive case studies and peer discussions about leading AI adoption. Registration eligibility differs for in-house professionals and vendors or consultants.
🎓 Pick One Skill to Practice
Code with GitHub Copilot
Microsoft on Coursera · Around two hours
Learn setup, prompting and how to bring Copilot into your coding workflow. Basic Python and VS Code familiarity are recommended.
Try afterward: Build a small script and test it with missing or incorrect inputs.
Make predictions from tabular data
Tabular Foundation Models for Data Science Agents · Announced November 11, this course explores predictions on new tabular datasets without training a new model for each one.
🤝 The Human Advantage
Your skills still matter. How you use them may change.
McKinsey Global Institute’s November 9 post highlights negotiation, problem solving and leadership as people work alongside AI agents and robots.
Image source: McKinsey Global Institute on X
Its Skill Change Index explores which skills could be most—and least—exposed to automation over the next five years.
✨ Final Note
Apply for a role. Complete a lesson. Enter a hackathon. Or turn a simple idea into a finished project.
Document what you built, what worked and what you would improve.
Give yourself something to show—not just another skill to list on your résumé.
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