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AI Innovations Unleashed
by JR DeLaney
"AI Innovations Unleashed: Your Educational Guide to Artificial Intelligence" Welcome to AI Innovations Unleashed—your trusted educational resource for understanding artificial intelligence and how it can work for you. This podcast and companion blog have been designed to demystify AI technology through clear explanations, practical examples, and expert insights that make complex concepts accessible to everyone—from students and lifelong learners to small business owners and professionals across all industries. Whether you're exploring AI fundamentals, looking to understand how AI can benefit your small business, or simply curious about how this technology works in the real world, our mission is to provide you with the knowledge and practical understanding you need to navigate an AI-powered future confidently. What You'll Learn: AI Fundamentals: Build a solid foundation in machine learning, neural net
Episodes
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AI in 5: Micro-Credentials & the Skills Passport (July 20, 2026)
Ninety-eight percent of employers now use skills-based hiring for entry-level roles — and the credential doing the heavy lifting isn't a four-year degree. It's the micro-credential: a short, verifiable, skill-specific certification that's quickly becoming a "skills passport" candidates carry from...
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AI in 5: The AI Browser War — The Next Battle for the Internet (June 8, 2026)
For nearly 30 years, browsers worked the same way: you search, you click, you read, you decide. That era is ending. In this episode of AI in 5, AI Learning Guide JR D explores the AI Browser War — the race between Google, Perplexity, Microsoft, OpenAI, and a new wave of startups to build the…
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The Friday Download: ChatGPT Dreams, Maryland Means It, and Congress Drops a 269-Page AI Mic (June 5, 2026)
This week on The Friday Download, JR breaks down three stories that actually moved the needle in AI and education. First up: OpenAI's ChatGPT just got a memory overhaul called Dreaming V3 — a background process that rewrites what the AI knows about you automatically, without you asking. It's...
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AI in 5: Cognitive Offloading: When AI Helps Learning — and When It Does the Thinking for Us (June 1, 2026)
Is AI making your students smarter — or doing their thinking for them? In this episode of AI in 5, The AI Learning Guide JR breaks down cognitive offloading: the process of shifting mental work onto external tools like calculators, GPS, and now AI assistants. In education, this raises a critical...
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The Friday Download: Kindergarten Bots, Blue Books, and the State-by-State AI Scramble (May 29, 2026)
This week on The Friday Download, JR tackles one of the most contradictory weeks yet in the world of AI and education. In New York City, kindergarten students are building reading skills with Amira, an AI-powered literacy assistant now used in approximately 150 schools. Meanwhile, high school...
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AI in 5: Predictive Analytics: Can AI Really Predict Student Success? (May 25, 2026)
What if schools could identify struggling students before grades collapse, attendance drops, or intervention comes too late? That’s the promise—and controversy—behind predictive analytics in education. In this episode of AI in 5, AI Learning Guide JR D. explores how artificial intelligence is...
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The Friday Download: From Dashboards to Droids: How AI Is Rewriting School (May 22, 2026)
In this episode of The Friday Download, JR D takes you on a tour through the strange, hilarious, and genuinely hopeful ways AI is reshaping school. From overworked teachers drowning in logins to dashboards quietly tracking learning in real time, we dig into how AI tools are moving from novelty...
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AI in 5: Deepfakes in Schools: Fake Media, Real Harm (May 18, 2026)
What happens when a fake image, video, or audio clip looks real enough to destroy trust inside a school community? In this episode of AI in 5, AI Learning Guide JR dives into one of the fastest-growing concerns in education technology: deepfakes. Deepfakes are AI-generated or AI-manipulated media...
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The Friday Download: When Your AI Gets a Security Clearance (And You Don't) (May 15, 2026)
Welcome to The Friday Download for May 15, 2026! This week JR DeLaney covers five stories reshaping how AI intersects with security, finance, and neuroscience. First: OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 Cyber through the Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program—a model built for pen testing and red teaming…
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AI in 5: How Your New AI Study Buddy Actually Thinks (May 11, 2026)
Your student’s AI study buddy is already in the room—are you ready to talk about how it actually works? In this episode of AI in 5, we pull back the curtain on the large language models powering today’s most popular study tools, from ChatGPT to flashcard generators. Host JR explains what it…
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AI at the End of the School Year: Part 1 - End-of-Year Reflections, But Make It AI (and Human)
Episode 1 — "End-of-Year Reflections, But Make It AI (and Human)" AI Innovations Unleashed · May 2026 Series · Episode 1 of 4 What does AI-assisted end-of-year reflection actually look like? Not the polished, generic version — the honest one. JR DeLaney explores how teachers can use AI as a...
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The Friday Download: AI Is Rewiring the LMS — and 5 Moves Every District Must Make Before August (May 8, 2026)
This week on The Friday Download, JR unpacks the education AI story you didn't see coming: it's not about new chatbots — it's about the plumbing of learning getting smarter. First up: Rasmussen University (125+ years old) is ditching Blackboard for D2L Brightspace and going all-in on Lumi AI —...
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AI in 5: Group Projects with a Droid: AI as a Thought Partner in High School PBL (May 4, 2026)
What if the most productive member of every student group project... was an AI? In this episode of AI in 5, your AI Learning Guide JR unpacks how high school teachers can use AI as a structured thought partner in project-based learning — without turning it into a cheating shortcut. You'll hear…
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The Friday Download: Graduation Requirements, Million-Dollar Bets, and the Great Phone Paradox (May 1, 2026)
This week: Boston makes AI fluency a graduation requirement with $1M backing from tech entrepreneur Paul English. Stanford launches a grant program funding AI skeptics (yes, really). 31 states introduce 134 AI education bills with zero consensus. Plus: the bizarre paradox of being told to embrace...
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AI in 5: Scaffolding in AI: Building Smarter Learners One Step at a Time (April 27, 2026)
Show Notes — "Scaffolding in AI: Building Smarter Learners One Step at a Time" What if every student had a tutor that knew exactly when to help — and exactly when to back off? That's the promise of AI scaffolding, and in this episode of AI in 5, The AI Learning Guide JR breaks it all down. Rooted...
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The Friday Download: Embrace the Bots, Ban the Phones: AI Literacy and Classroom Whiplash (April 24, 2026)
Schools are trying to navigate a strange new reality: embrace AI, limit phones, and somehow teach students to use powerful tools responsibly. This week's Friday Download looks at the tension between AI adoption and phone bans, the U.S. Department of Education's new AI-related grant priorities…
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AI in 5: The Hidden Workload Relief: How AI Preps the Classroom So Teachers Can Teach It (April 20, 2026)
Teachers work an average of 49 hours per week — 10 hours above their contracted time — and much of that invisible labor happens before class ever starts. In this episode of AI in 5, Tour Guide JR D. explores a smarter, more human-centered use of AI: not as a replacement for the teacher, but as a...
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The Friday Download: AI Gold Rush, Sneaker Servers, and the Model Wars Heating Up (April 17, 2026)
The Friday Download — April 17, 2026 Show Notes This week’s Friday Download focuses on the AI stories that actually move the needle. The episode dives into Allbirds’ dramatic pivot into GPU‑as‑a‑Service under its new NewBird AI identity, a case study in how the AI gold rush is reshaping entire...
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AI in 5: Raise AI-Smart Kids: The Family Literacy Skill That Outsmarts the Algorithm (April 13, 2026)
AI is everywhere — in our kids' homework apps, search results, and even their social feeds. But are families actually equipped to navigate it? In this episode of AI in 5, AI Learning Tour Guide JR D. breaks down what AI literacy really means for families and gives you a dead-simple three-question...
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The Friday Download: AI Broke the Pop Quiz (And Might Save Assessment) (April 10, 2026)
The Friday Download — Show Notes "The Robot Wrote My Essay (Or Did It?)" This week on The Friday Download, JR asks the question that's haunting every teacher, professor, and parent in 2026: did my student write this — or did their robot? In The Big Weird, we dig into what the data actually shows...
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AI in 5: The IEP Gets an AI Upgrade: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Special Education for 7.5 Million Students (April 8, 2026)
AI isn't just transforming boardrooms and tech hubs — it's showing up in IEP meetings, speech therapy sessions, and adaptive learning platforms for the 7.5 million students who receive special education services in the U.S. In this episode of AI in 5, Tour Guide JR D. unpacks how artificial...
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The Friday Download: From Leaky Bots to Life-Saving Breakthroughs on April 3, 2026
This week on The Friday Download, JR digs into the strange, the hopeful, and the “did that really happen?” corners of AI. We start with Anthropic’s reported Claude Code leak, which exposed a three-layer memory system and sparked fresh debates about model secrecy and safety. Then we zoom out to…
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AI in 5: The Lab Assistant That Never Sleeps — How AI Is Rewriting Science, Schools & Your Future (March 30, 2026)
What if the next cure for cancer was discovered not by a scientist… but with one? In this episode of AI in 5, Tour Guide JR D breaks down the explosive collision of artificial intelligence and scientific discovery — and why it matters to every student, teacher, and lifelong learner alive right…
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The Learning Curve: Part 4 - AI and the Future of Education -- Who Owns Your Child's Data? Inside the AI Ed-Tech Industrial Complex
In the finale of The Learning Curve, JR and ARIA zoom out from individual classrooms to ask the questions no one in edtech wants to answer: Who builds the AI shaping our kids' education? Who funded it? And who gets left out? From the $348 billion global edtech market to the fine print of student...
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The Friday Download: AI Agents Are Acting on Their Own… Now What? | Robots, Alignment, and This Week in AI (March 27, 2026)
🎧 SHOW NOTES AI just stepped into a new phase—and it’s not waiting for instructions anymore. In this week’s Friday Download, we break down the rise of AI agents that can plan, act, and adapt on their own—marking a shift from tools to true digital teammates. But with that autonomy comes bigger...
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AI in 5: Talk to It Right: Mastering Prompt Engineering — The AI Skill That’s Worth 27% More on Your Paycheck - March 24, 2026
In this episode of AI in 5, Tour Guide JR D tackles one of the most misunderstood — and most valuable — skills in the AI revolution: prompt engineering. Think of it as the difference between telling a chef “Make me food” versus ordering the exact dish you want. AI is the chef. Your prompt is the...
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The Learning Curve: Part 3 - Learning Without Walls - How Homeschool Families Are Pioneering AI-Powered Education—and What Every School Should Learn From Them
In Episode 3 of The Learning Curve, JR and ARIA explore one of the most under-reported stories in education: how homeschool families are becoming America’s most agile AI adopters—and what the rest of us should be watching. With no approval cycles and no policy gatekeepers, these families move…
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The Learning Curve: Part 2 - The Student Dilemma - Is AI the great equalizer — or the next thing that widens the gap?
Is AI the great equalizer — or the next thing that widens the gap? In Episode 2 of The Learning Curve, JR and ARIA go inside the student experience — and what they find is messier, more hopeful, and more urgent than the cheating-panic headlines suggest. This episode covers: how first-generation...
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The Learning Curve: Part 1 - The AI Educator Paradox: Is Tech Saving Teachers or Replacing Them?
Welcome to Episode 1 of The Learning Curve! Host JR, The AI Learning Guide, alongside AI co-hosts Nex and ARIA, investigates the hidden reality of how teachers are actually using AI. While public narratives focus on student cheating, a quiet revolution is happening behind the scenes. Teachers are...
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AI in 5: AI Hallucinations: When Smart Systems Sound Smart… But Get It Wrong (March 3, 2026)
Show Notes – AI in 5: AI Hallucinations AI is powerful. Fast. Fluent. Persuasive. But it isn’t perfect. In this episode of AI in 5, Tour Guide JR D breaks down one of the most misunderstood challenges in generative AI today: hallucinations. From fabricated citations discovered in AI-assisted...
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The Invisible AI: Part 4 — Arguing With a Machine: AI Accountability, Your Rights, and How to Fight Back
Episode 4 of 4 | The Invisible AI Series | AI Innovations Unleashed When an algorithm denies your job, your apartment, or your health insurance — and takes 1.2 seconds to do it — who is actually responsible? In this series finale, JR D. and AI research companion Ada close out "The Invisible AI"…
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🎙️ The Friday Download - AI Wants a Body, Governments Want Control, and Your Laptop Wants Power (February 27, 2026)
🎙️ Show Notes This week’s Friday Download explores a structural shift in artificial intelligence. Humanoid robotics research is advancing embodied AI through improved proprioception, allowing machines to better understand and correct their physical movement. Meanwhile, enforcement momentum…
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🎙️ AI in 5 - $650 Billion and Counting: What Big Tech’s AI Spending Surge Means for YOU (February 24, 2026)
Big Tech is projected to invest roughly $650 billion in artificial intelligence in 2026 — and that headline number is more than just tech hype. In this episode of AI in 5, Tour Guide JR D breaks down what that spending surge actually means for everyday professionals, business leaders, and curious...
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The Invisible AI - Part3: Your Bias Is Showing — And So Is the Algorithm's (TEASER)
Can fixing AI bias be as simple as cleaning the data? The math says no. Explore algorithmic fairness — and why neutrality is never truly neutral. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Want to go deeper than the podcast? Join The Unleashed — the growing AI Innovations Unleashed community for…
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The Invisible AI - Part 3: Your Bias Is Showing — And So Is the Algorithm's
Episode 3 of The Invisible AI asks the hardest question yet: what if the math itself is the problem? Tour Guide JR D and AI research companion Ada explore why 'just fix the data' isn't enough — and why algorithmic bias runs deeper than dirty training sets. From Amazon's gender-biased hiring tool...
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🎙️ The Friday Download: AI Did What This Week? From Deepfake Drama to Code That Writes Itself (February 20, 2026)
This week on The Friday Download, Tour Guide JR D breaks down the weird and the wonderful in AI. From a viral deepfake executive video that sparked market confusion to AI-powered tutoring systems improving adaptive learning, the headlines swung between chaos and competence. We also explore AI...
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AI in 5: Agentic AI Goes Viral: The Rise (and Risks) of OpenClaw (February 17, 2026)
Show Notes – AI Innovations Unleashed: AI in 5 (February 17, 2026) In this episode of AI Innovations Unleashed – AI in 5, Dr. JR unpacks the rapid rise of OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot. What started as a developer-side project quickly went viral, gaining massive...
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Teaser = The Invisible AI: Part 2 - You Didn't Sign This: The Hidden Machines That Decide Your Life Without Your Permission
In Episode 2 of The Invisible AI series, Doctor JR and AI guest Ada pull back the curtain on the consent machinery that powers the algorithmic age. Every time you click "I Agree," you may be handing over far more than you think — and when it comes to government algorithms and third-party data...
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The Invisible AI: Part 2 - You Didn't Sign This: The Hidden Machines That Decide Your Life Without Your Permission
In Episode 2 of The Invisible AI series, Doctor JR and AI guest Ada pull back the curtain on the consent machinery that powers the algorithmic age. Every time you click "I Agree," you may be handing over far more than you think — and when it comes to government algorithms and third-party data...
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The Friday Download: AI’s Wild Week: Viral Video Bots, Siri Upgrades, & Robot Training Galore (February 13, 2026)
🎙️ The Friday Download Host: Dr. JR, Doctor of AI Episode: AI’s Wild Week: Viral Video Bots, Siri Upgrades & Robot Training Galore Episode Summary This week, we unpack the biggest AI developments from the past 7–10 days. From ByteDance’s viral Seedance 2.0 video model to Siri’s upcoming...
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AI in 5: When AI Stops Assisting and Starts Acting (February 10, 2026)
📝 Show Notes — AI in 5 (Feb 9, 2026) AI agents are no longer just assisting — they’re acting. In this week’s AI in 5, Dr. JR breaks down why autonomous AI agents have quietly become one of the most important shifts in enterprise technology. From the buzzy AI.com Super Bowl ad to the reported $70...
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The Invisible AI: Episode 1 - The Day AI Rejected You (And You Didn't Even Know It)
What if an algorithm rejected you, and you never even knew it happened? In this explosive first episode of our four-part "Invisible AI" series, Dr. JR teams up with AI research assistant Ada to expose the hidden algorithmic systems making life-changing decisions about millions of Americans every...
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The Invisible AI- Episode 1 - The Day AI Rejected You (And You Didn't Even Know It) = TEASER
Discover how AI algorithms secretly decide your job prospects, housing, and credit—without your knowledge. The invisible systems controlling your future. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Want to go deeper than the podcast? Join The Unleashed — the growing AI Innovations Unleashed community for...
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The Friday Download: AI Panic, Smart Assistants, and the Week Tech Lost Its Chill (February 6, 2026)
This week on The Friday Download, Dr. JR breaks down one of the strangest weeks in AI yet. From Wall Street’s near-trillion-dollar software sell-off sparked by fears of AI disruption, to growing concerns around hyper-realistic deepfakes and AI companions, the tech world had feelings—and lots of...
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AI in 5: AI in 2026: Agentic Workflows, Consciousness Ethics, and Meta’s Wearable Revolution (February 3, 2026)
Show Notes Episode Summary: Doctor JR dives into the "Agentic Leap" of 2026, Meta's new wearable AI grants, and the scientific breakthrough of AI-managed particle accelerators. Plus, a look at the ethics of machine consciousness and how Luckin Coffee is winning the AI revenue game. (1,295...
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The Friday Download: Space Burgers, Anime Tubes, and the $20B Brain-Trade (January 30, 2026)
This week on The Friday Download, Dr. JR covers the top AI stories of late January 2026. The Weird: Razer's "Project Ava" holographic AI and Lenovo's Auto Twist nodding laptop (CES 2026). Brands like Almond Breeze and Equinox lean into "AI Slop" to mock generative tech. The Cool: ESA's AI finds...
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The Simulation of Intimacy: Episode 4 - The Ghost in the Code
What happens when the AI you love changes without your consent? In this powerful episode of AI Innovations Unleashed, Doctor JR and AI research synthesis Doctor Cassandra Smith dive deep into the hidden costs of AI companionship. We explore the February 2023 Replika controversy that left millions...
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The Friday Download: $10B Brain Chips, Empathetic AI, and Robots That Actually Work (January 23, 2026)
This week on The Friday Download, Dr. JR breaks down one of the biggest AI hardware deals ever—OpenAI’s $10 billion compute partnership with Cerebras—and why wafer-scale chips are reshaping the future of model training. We explore new neuroscience research showing the human brain processes…
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AI Innovations Unleashed: AI in 5 AI’s 2030 Breakthrough: The Pivot from Productivity to Profit (January 20, 2026)
Welcome to AI in 5, the quick-hit segment of AI Innovations Unleashed. In this episode, Doctor JR breaks down why 2026 is the year we stop using AI to save time and start using it to make money. Highlights include: The 2030 Revenue Roadmap: Analyzing the new IBM study where 79% of CEOs project AI...
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The Simulation of Intimacy - Episode 3: The Lonely Crowd & The Digital Companion
Episode 3: The Lonely Crowd & The Digital Companion The AI companion market exploded in 2025, with 220 million global downloads and $120M in revenue. Character.AI users spend 92 minutes daily with their AI companions—more time than many spend with human partners. 72% of American teens have tried…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
"AI Innovations Unleashed: Your Educational Guide to Artificial Intelligence"
Welcome to AI Innovations Unleashed—your trusted educational resource for understanding artificial intelligence and how it can work for you. This podcast and companion blog have been designed to demystify AI technology through clear explanations, practical examples, and expert insights that make complex concepts accessible to everyone—from students and lifelong learners to small business owners and professionals across all industries.
Whether you're exploring AI fundamentals, looking to understand how AI can benefit your small business, or simply curious about how this technology works in the real world, our mission is to provide you with the knowledge and practical understanding you need to navigate an AI-powered future confidently.
What You'll Learn:
AI Fundamentals: Build a solid foundation in machine learning, neural net
HOSTED BY
JR DeLaney
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