Sidecar Sync
By Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
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Episodes: 133
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Welcome to Sidecar Sync: Your Weekly Dose of Innovation for Associations. Hosted by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias, this podcast is your definitive source for the latest news, insights, and trends in the association world with a special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its pivotal role in shaping the future. Each week, we delve into the most pressing topics, spotlighting the transformative role of emerging technologies and their profound impact on associations. With a commitment to cutting through the noise, Sidecar Sync offers listeners clear, informed discussions, expert perspectives, and a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities facing associations today. Whether you're an association professional, tech enthusiast, or just keen on staying updated, Sidecar Sync ensures you're always ahead of the curve. Join us for enlightening conversations and a fresh take on the ever-evolving world of associations.
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Dark Databases & the State of AI Video | 133
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May 07, 2026 |
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Claude's Design Coup & The Curse of Work Slop | 132
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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How Siri’s Co-Creator Predicts the Next AI Wave with Adam & Noah Cheyer | 131
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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The Little AI Models That Could | 130
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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An FBI Operative’s Guide to Cybersecurity, Deepfakes, and Modern Spycraft with Eric O’Neill | 129
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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The Claude Mythos Leak & the Reality of Computer-Using Agents | 128
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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A New Era of AI Education with the ‘AI Learning Hub’ & The Rise of OpenClaw | 127
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Meet Grace: Sidecar’s New AI Agent Takes the Stage | 126
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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AI Agents Shake Up the Software Market, Cybersecurity's Arms Race, & Future-Proofing Your Stack | 125
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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The State of AI Agents in 2026 | 124
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Agent Tollgates & MCP Mayhem: Who Really Owns Your Data? | 123
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The Maia 200 Breakthrough, Project Genie’s Living Worlds, & The New Rules of Work | 122
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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From Deep Learning Indaba to Algorithmic Sovereignty with Benjamin Rosman | 121
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Kimi K2.5’s Swarm of Agents, Claude Goes Vertical, and AI Data Centers in Space | 120
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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From White House Strategy to Youth Safety Tools: Navigating AI’s Risks and Rewards with Bruce Reed | 119
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Global Gaps in AI Use & What Happens When Capital Doesn’t Need Labor? | 118
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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The Physical AI Moment: Dispatches from CES 2026 | 117
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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The 95% Problem: Fixing What’s Broken in Enterprise AI | 116
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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The New Year AI Checkup: What We Got Right in 2025 and What’s Coming in 2026 | 115
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Supersonic Moments: The NFL’s Flight Problem & 100 Trillion Tokens | 114
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Domain-Specific AI : How Legal, Medical, and Engineering Are Being Reimagined | 113
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: AI & Legal Relevance with Ernie the Attorney | 112
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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The November Model Wave: DeepSeek 3.2, Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, Mistral 3, and OpenAI's Code Red Moment | 111
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Claiming the Right to Win: How IFT Built CoDeveloper with Jay Gilbert | 110
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The Race for AI Speed, Efficiency, & Infrastructure: Haiku 4.5, Diffusion Models, & Project Suncatcher | 109
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Live from digitalNow 2025: Inside the Association Evolution | 108
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Dolphins & DeepMind: Cracking the Code of Animal Language with Dr. Denise Herzing | 107
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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What to Expect at digitalNow 2025 & the App That Picks Your Sessions (Built Live!) | 106
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Rethinking UX for the 50+ Crowd with Bryan Kelly | 105
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Wuji’s Gripping Breakthrough, AI Literacy Goes Mandatory, & The AI Adoption Divide | 104
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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DevDay 2025: No-Code App Development, ChatGPT Pulse, & The Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Play | 103
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Redefines Workflows, Sora 2 Transforms Video, & Early Movers Build the Future | 102
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Scaling AI for Social Good with Wadhwani AI | 101
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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100 Episodes Later: A Look Back at What We’ve Learned—and What’s Coming | 100
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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When Influencers Disrupt Institutions with Jackson Boyar | 99
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Inside the AI Audio Revolution: Translating, Conversing, & Composing | 98
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Exploring Interactive AI Simulations and World Models with Thomas Altman | 97
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Rapid Fire AI Updates & The Coming Energy Reckoning | 96
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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GPT-5 Has Landed & OpenAI Opens Up | 95
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Semantic Health & the Future of Medical Coding with Dr. Nicola Sahar | 94
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Mission-Driven Models, AGI on the Horizon, & the AI Infrastructure Crunch | 93
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Physical AI: The Robot Takeover We Actually Want | 92
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Next-Gen Knowledge: AI Education with Conor and Finn Grennan | 91
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Cloudflare vs. the Crawlers & The Nonprofit Tech Divide | 90
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Navigating AI Seas: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd | 89
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Adapt or Fade: Embracing the Adaptability Quotient with John Spence | 88
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Emotions, Accents, and Avatars Galore & Why Apple Says It’s All Just an Illusion | 87
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Online Learning Course Creation at 26x Speed | 86
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Generative Video Meets Deep Think at Google I/O & Claude 4 Finds Its Voice | 85
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Breaking Math with Google’s AlphaEvolve | 84
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May 29, 2025 |
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Snooze to Win: Why Digital Naptime Is AI’s Most Productive Hour | 83
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May 22, 2025 |
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Getting Your Board on Board with AI | 82
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May 15, 2025 |
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Fargo vs. Klarna & The Rise of Reasoning Models | 81
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May 08, 2025 |
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Getting Hands-On with MCP & Anthropic’s AI Economic Index | 80
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May 01, 2025 |
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Ian Andrews Talks Groq’s Fast, Smart AI Inference Tech | 79
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Cartoon Avatars, Talking Robots, and AI That Draws | 78
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Intel Bets Big on Chips Again as Meta Drops Llama 4 | 77
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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AI Innovations from Gemini and DeepSeek to Break Your Brain | 76
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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AI-Enhanced Member Services: Turning Strategy Into Action | 75
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Manus AI Tackles Complex Tasks While Sesame AI Sounds a Little More Human | 74
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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AI-Enhanced Member Services: What You Need to Know | 73
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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AI Tacos & Amazon’s Return to Office Mandate | 72
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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The Next Generation Glow-Up of Claude and Grok & Microsoft Makes the Quantum Leap | 71
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Updates from the Paris AI Summit & Reuters’ Copyright Showdown | 70
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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OpenAI’s Deep Research & the Dilemma of Jevons Paradox | 69
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Adapt or Get Left Behind: How AI is Reshaping Associations with John Huisman | 68
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Did China’s DeepSeek Just Dethrone OpenAI? | 67
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Empowering Teams, Embracing AI: A Blueprint for Bold Leadership | 66
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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AI, Leadership, and Innovation: Keynote Highlights from digitalNow 2024 (Day 2) | 65
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Google’s Gemini Deep Research and Diamond Batteries That Last Forever | 64
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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AI Agents and Association Strategies: Keynote Highlights from digitalNow 2024 (Day 1) | 63
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Boosting Public Speaking Skills with AI: Varun Puri and Yoodli | 62
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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How to NOT Commit ‘Leadership Malpractice’: 10 Predictions for AI in 2025 | 61
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Meta Launches Llama 3.3 & Text-to-Video Becomes Reality with Sora by OpenAI | 60
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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AI Grannies Fight Back & Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol | 59
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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AI Audio Innovations for Associations: Holiday Edition | 58
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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The Death of Prompt Engineering (?) & OpenAI’s Operator Agent | 57
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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AI Agents for Associations: Revolutionizing Customer Experience | 56
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Exploring AI Audio – Part 2: Association Engagement Strategies | 55
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Exploring AI Audio – Part 1: Fundamentals & Essential AI Audio Tools | 54
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Generating Instant Avatars with HeyGen & Anthropic’s New ‘Computer Use’ Feature | 53
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Meta’s New Llama 3.2 Model & Decoding Digital Twins | 52
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Live Demo of ChatGPT Canvas & Overview of Microsoft Copilot’s Wave 2 | 51
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Celebrating 50 Episodes, Exploring AI Learning Hub, and Advances in Spatial Intelligence | 50
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Previewing digitalNow 2024, Google NotebookLM, and xRx Framework Explained | 49
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Unlocking AI-Powered Insights from Unstructured Data | 48
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Project Strawberry, Hugging Face Speech-to-Speech Model, & AI and Grid Infrastructure | 47
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Leveraging Asset Bases with AI, The Plummeting Cost of Tokens, & Generational Differences in AI Adoption | 46
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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7 AI Strategies to Revolutionize Your Content Writing | 45
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Scaling Laws, AI Scientist Framework, and AI-Generated TV with Showrunner | 44
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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6 Obstacles Preventing Your Organization From Embracing AI | 43
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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ASAE Annual Conference, Figure’s Humanoid Robot, & Segment Anything with Meta Ai’s SAM2 | 42
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Storytelling with Lumi AI, Google DeepMind's Mathematical AI Models, and Deepfakes in Politics | 41
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Andrej Karpathy's Eureka Labs, ChatGPT-4o Mini is Mighty, and Llama 3.1 Unveiled | 40
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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AI and Exponential Growth, Protein Folding, and Predicting the Future of AGI | 39
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Embracing AI to Achieve Remarkable Success with Guy Kawasaki | 38
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, AI Scams, and Runway's Gen-3 Alpha Model | 37
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Transforming Healthcare Nonprofits: Inteleos' Tech Evolution and AI Future with Dale Cyr & Juan Sanchez | 36
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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From Hackathons to AI Mastery: Understanding Vectors and Embeddings | 35
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Apple's AI Breakthrough, Wayve's Autonomous Driving Innovation, and Predicting the Weather with Microsoft's Aurora | 34
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Google AI Overviews, DeepL’s Translation Revolution, and Personalizing with rex’s AI Engine | 33
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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AI Marketing Strategies, PLG Insights, and the Future of User Engagement with Bill Macaitis | 32
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May 30, 2024 |
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31: AlphaFold 3's Breakthrough, GPT-4o Innovations, and AI's Role in Organizations
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May 23, 2024 |
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30: Jeff Jones on Patient Care Innovation & Transforming Healthcare with AI
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May 16, 2024 |
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29: Microsoft’s New MAI-1, Google’s AI Report on Non-Profits, & Randy Travis Gets his Voice Back
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May 09, 2024 |
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28: Intellectual Property & AI Armor with Patent Attorney Robert Plotkin
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May 02, 2024 |
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27: The Democratization of Expertise, Meta AI Chatbot, and Making Deepfakes with Microsoft’s VASA-1
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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26: Unlocking Customer Lifetime Value and Embracing AI with Google's Neil Hoyne
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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25: Llama 3, Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 Class, & AI and the Middle Class
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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24: The Sounds of Suno AI, the Stargate AI Supercomputer, and Grok 1.5 vs. DBRX
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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23: Humanoid Robots, Groq’s AI Chips, and Using AI for Better Weather Forecasting
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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22: An Interview with Bill Jewell
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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21: Claude 3, Klarna's AI Chatbot Assistant, and Too Much Hype Around Generative AI
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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20: Fundamentals of AI Part 2
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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19: Fundamentals of AI Part 1
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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18: Open AI's Sora, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Practical Applications of Generative AI in Business
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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17: All About AI Agents
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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16: An Interview with Sharon Gai
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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15: Neuralink and Elon Musk, Generative AI and Privacy Risks, and NYC Local Law 144
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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14: Marketing and AI with Greg Kihlström
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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13: Professional Development in the Age of AI
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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12: The Data Episode
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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11: The Intersection of AI and Science, Robin AI, the NYT Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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10: Ten AI Predictions in 2024
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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09: Interview w/ Alice Locatelli | Senior Director of Digital Strategy, Society of Actuaries
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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08: Decoding AI Interpretability, Mistral's MoE Model, the EU AI Act
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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07: AI's Materials Science Leap, the AI Alliance, Open Source Versus Closed, and AI Governance
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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06: Unpacking Q* and Amazon Q, Rethinking Organizational Structures with AI Workflows
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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05: Sam Altman is back at OpenAI, When AI is Just "Good Enough," and Generative AI Search
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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04: Custom GPTs and the Argument for Pausing Legacy Upgrades in Favor of AI
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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03: Navigating the digitalNow and OpenAI’s Developer Event - Key Takeaways for Associations
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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02: AI Agents in the C-Suite, the AI Executive Order, and Navigating the Future with Roadmaps
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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01: AI in Action - Frameworks, Brain Chips, Robocalls, and Digital Defenders
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Oct 25, 2023 |