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Sidecar Sync — 148 episodes

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Fundamentals of AI, Part 1 | 148

2

Open-Weight Models, AI Watermarks, and How to Run Your Own Hackathon | 147

3

AI-Powered Service for Landscape Architects with Torey Carter-Conneen | 146

4

Rogue Agents, the Open-Weight Revolt, & Claude Gets Cheaper | 145

5

The Open-Weight Wave & the Push for AI Referees | 144

6

Suspenders & Double Dutch: Scaling AI Without Losing the Human Touch with Vicki Deal-Williams | 143

7

The Data Episode | 142

8

Anthropic’s Rapid Model Releases, GPT 5.6’s Gated Launch, and The Real AI Jobs Story | 141

9

Argentina, ARD, & AI’s Environmental Footprint | 140

10

The $400 AI Startup with Jon Cheney | 139

11

AI Solves an 80-Year Mystery, Microsoft Agents Take Over, & Anthropic’s Claude Mythos vs. Fable | 138

12

The 4 Modes of Working with AI, The Transformation Paradox, & Building a Learning Organization | 137

13

How AI Is Changing Scientific Publishing with Dr. Jessica Miles | 136

14

Proactive Gemini Workflows, AI Mode’s Search Overhaul, & Antigravity-Powered Wearables | 135

15

Enterprise Platforms Prepare for AI Agents & Diffusion LLMs Prove Their Production Value | 134

16

Dark Databases & the State of AI Video | 133

17

Claude's Design Coup & The Curse of Work Slop | 132

18

How Siri’s Co-Creator Predicts the Next AI Wave with Adam & Noah Cheyer | 131

19

The Little AI Models That Could | 130

20

An FBI Operative’s Guide to Cybersecurity, Deepfakes, and Modern Spycraft with Eric O’Neill | 129

21

The Claude Mythos Leak & the Reality of Computer-Using Agents | 128

22

A New Era of AI Education with the ‘AI Learning Hub’ & The Rise of OpenClaw | 127

23

Meet Grace: Sidecar’s New AI Agent Takes the Stage | 126

24

AI Agents Shake Up the Software Market, Cybersecurity's Arms Race, & Future-Proofing Your Stack | 125

25

The State of AI Agents in 2026 | 124

26

Agent Tollgates & MCP Mayhem: Who Really Owns Your Data? | 123

27

The Maia 200 Breakthrough, Project Genie’s Living Worlds, & The New Rules of Work | 122

28

From Deep Learning Indaba to Algorithmic Sovereignty with Benjamin Rosman | 121

29

Kimi K2.5’s Swarm of Agents, Claude Goes Vertical, and AI Data Centers in Space | 120

30

From White House Strategy to Youth Safety Tools: Navigating AI’s Risks and Rewards with Bruce Reed | 119

31

Global Gaps in AI Use & What Happens When Capital Doesn’t Need Labor? | 118

32

The Physical AI Moment: Dispatches from CES 2026 | 117

33

The 95% Problem: Fixing What’s Broken in Enterprise AI | 116

34

The New Year AI Checkup: What We Got Right in 2025 and What’s Coming in 2026 | 115

35

Supersonic Moments: The NFL’s Flight Problem & 100 Trillion Tokens | 114

36

Domain-Specific AI : How Legal, Medical, and Engineering Are Being Reimagined | 113

37

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: AI & Legal Relevance with Ernie the Attorney | 112

38

The November Model Wave: DeepSeek 3.2, Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, Mistral 3, and OpenAI's Code Red Moment | 111

39

Claiming the Right to Win: How IFT Built CoDeveloper with Jay Gilbert | 110

40

The Race for AI Speed, Efficiency, & Infrastructure: Haiku 4.5, Diffusion Models, & Project Suncatcher | 109

41

Live from digitalNow 2025: Inside the Association Evolution | 108

42

Dolphins & DeepMind: Cracking the Code of Animal Language with Dr. Denise Herzing | 107

43

What to Expect at digitalNow 2025 & the App That Picks Your Sessions (Built Live!) | 106

44

Rethinking UX for the 50+ Crowd with Bryan Kelly | 105

45

Wuji’s Gripping Breakthrough, AI Literacy Goes Mandatory, & The AI Adoption Divide | 104

46

DevDay 2025: No-Code App Development, ChatGPT Pulse, & The Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Play | 103

47

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Redefines Workflows, Sora 2 Transforms Video, & Early Movers Build the Future | 102

48

Scaling AI for Social Good with Wadhwani AI | 101

49

100 Episodes Later: A Look Back at What We’ve Learned—and What’s Coming | 100

50

When Influencers Disrupt Institutions with Jackson Boyar | 99

51

Inside the AI Audio Revolution: Translating, Conversing, & Composing | 98

52

Exploring Interactive AI Simulations and World Models with Thomas Altman | 97

53

Rapid Fire AI Updates & The Coming Energy Reckoning | 96

54

GPT-5 Has Landed & OpenAI Opens Up | 95

55

Semantic Health & the Future of Medical Coding with Dr. Nicola Sahar | 94

56

Mission-Driven Models, AGI on the Horizon, & the AI Infrastructure Crunch | 93

57

Physical AI: The Robot Takeover We Actually Want | 92

58

Next-Gen Knowledge: AI Education with Conor and Finn Grennan | 91

59

Cloudflare vs. the Crawlers & The Nonprofit Tech Divide | 90

60

Navigating AI Seas: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd | 89

61

Adapt or Fade: Embracing the Adaptability Quotient with John Spence | 88

62

Emotions, Accents, and Avatars Galore & Why Apple Says It’s All Just an Illusion | 87

63

Online Learning Course Creation at 26x Speed | 86

64

Generative Video Meets Deep Think at Google I/O & Claude 4 Finds Its Voice | 85

65

Breaking Math with Google’s AlphaEvolve | 84

66

Snooze to Win: Why Digital Naptime Is AI’s Most Productive Hour | 83

67

Getting Your Board on Board with AI | 82

68

Fargo vs. Klarna & The Rise of Reasoning Models | 81

69

Getting Hands-On with MCP & Anthropic’s AI Economic Index | 80

70

Ian Andrews Talks Groq’s Fast, Smart AI Inference Tech | 79

71

Cartoon Avatars, Talking Robots, and AI That Draws | 78

72

Intel Bets Big on Chips Again as Meta Drops Llama 4 | 77

73

AI Innovations from Gemini and DeepSeek to Break Your Brain | 76

74

AI-Enhanced Member Services: Turning Strategy Into Action | 75

75

Manus AI Tackles Complex Tasks While Sesame AI Sounds a Little More Human | 74

76

AI-Enhanced Member Services: What You Need to Know | 73

77

AI Tacos & Amazon’s Return to Office Mandate | 72

78

The Next Generation Glow-Up of Claude and Grok & Microsoft Makes the Quantum Leap | 71

79

Updates from the Paris AI Summit & Reuters’ Copyright Showdown | 70

80

OpenAI’s Deep Research & the Dilemma of Jevons Paradox | 69

81

Adapt or Get Left Behind: How AI is Reshaping Associations with John Huisman | 68

82

Did China’s DeepSeek Just Dethrone OpenAI? | 67

83

Empowering Teams, Embracing AI: A Blueprint for Bold Leadership | 66

84

AI, Leadership, and Innovation: Keynote Highlights from digitalNow 2024 (Day 2) | 65

85

Google’s Gemini Deep Research and Diamond Batteries That Last Forever | 64

86

AI Agents and Association Strategies: Keynote Highlights from digitalNow 2024 (Day 1) | 63

87

Boosting Public Speaking Skills with AI: Varun Puri and Yoodli | 62

88

How to NOT Commit ‘Leadership Malpractice’: 10 Predictions for AI in 2025 | 61

89

Meta Launches Llama 3.3 & Text-to-Video Becomes Reality with Sora by OpenAI | 60

90

AI Grannies Fight Back & Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol | 59

91

AI Audio Innovations for Associations: Holiday Edition | 58

92

The Death of Prompt Engineering (?) & OpenAI’s Operator Agent | 57

93

AI Agents for Associations: Revolutionizing Customer Experience | 56

94

Exploring AI Audio – Part 2: Association Engagement Strategies | 55

95

Exploring AI Audio – Part 1: Fundamentals & Essential AI Audio Tools | 54

96

Generating Instant Avatars with HeyGen & Anthropic’s New ‘Computer Use’ Feature | 53

97

Meta’s New Llama 3.2 Model & Decoding Digital Twins | 52

98

Live Demo of ChatGPT Canvas & Overview of Microsoft Copilot’s Wave 2 | 51

99

Celebrating 50 Episodes, Exploring AI Learning Hub, and Advances in Spatial Intelligence | 50

100

Previewing digitalNow 2024, Google NotebookLM, and xRx Framework Explained | 49

101

Unlocking AI-Powered Insights from Unstructured Data | 48

102

Project Strawberry, Hugging Face Speech-to-Speech Model, & AI and Grid Infrastructure | 47

103

Leveraging Asset Bases with AI, The Plummeting Cost of Tokens, & Generational Differences in AI Adoption | 46

104

7 AI Strategies to Revolutionize Your Content Writing | 45

105

Scaling Laws, AI Scientist Framework, and AI-Generated TV with Showrunner | 44

106

6 Obstacles Preventing Your Organization From Embracing AI | 43

107

ASAE Annual Conference, Figure’s Humanoid Robot, & Segment Anything with Meta Ai’s SAM2 | 42

108

Storytelling with Lumi AI, Google DeepMind's Mathematical AI Models, and Deepfakes in Politics | 41

109

Andrej Karpathy's Eureka Labs, ChatGPT-4o Mini is Mighty, and Llama 3.1 Unveiled | 40

110

AI and Exponential Growth, Protein Folding, and Predicting the Future of AGI | 39

111

Embracing AI to Achieve Remarkable Success with Guy Kawasaki | 38

112

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, AI Scams, and Runway's Gen-3 Alpha Model | 37

113

Transforming Healthcare Nonprofits: Inteleos' Tech Evolution and AI Future with Dale Cyr & Juan Sanchez | 36

114

From Hackathons to AI Mastery: Understanding Vectors and Embeddings | 35

115

Apple's AI Breakthrough, Wayve's Autonomous Driving Innovation, and Predicting the Weather with Microsoft's Aurora | 34

116

Google AI Overviews, DeepL’s Translation Revolution, and Personalizing with rex’s AI Engine | 33

117

AI Marketing Strategies, PLG Insights, and the Future of User Engagement with Bill Macaitis | 32

118

31: AlphaFold 3's Breakthrough, GPT-4o Innovations, and AI's Role in Organizations

119

30: Jeff Jones on Patient Care Innovation & Transforming Healthcare with AI

120

29: Microsoft’s New MAI-1, Google’s AI Report on Non-Profits, & Randy Travis Gets his Voice Back

121

28: Intellectual Property & AI Armor with Patent Attorney Robert Plotkin

122

27: The Democratization of Expertise, Meta AI Chatbot, and Making Deepfakes with Microsoft’s VASA-1

123

26: Unlocking Customer Lifetime Value and Embracing AI with Google's Neil Hoyne

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25: Llama 3, Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 Class, & AI and the Middle Class

125

24: The Sounds of Suno AI, the Stargate AI Supercomputer, and Grok 1.5 vs. DBRX

126

23: Humanoid Robots, Groq’s AI Chips, and Using AI for Better Weather Forecasting

127

22: An Interview with Bill Jewell

128

21: Claude 3, Klarna's AI Chatbot Assistant, and Too Much Hype Around Generative AI

129

20: Fundamentals of AI Part 2

130

19: Fundamentals of AI Part 1

131

18: Open AI's Sora, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Practical Applications of Generative AI in Business

132

17: All About AI Agents

133

16: An Interview with Sharon Gai

134

15: Neuralink and Elon Musk, Generative AI and Privacy Risks, and NYC Local Law 144

135

14: Marketing and AI with Greg Kihlström

136

13: Professional Development in the Age of AI

137

12: The Data Episode

138

11: The Intersection of AI and Science, Robin AI, the NYT Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft

139

10: Ten AI Predictions in 2024

140

09: Interview w/ Alice Locatelli | Senior Director of Digital Strategy, Society of Actuaries

141

08: Decoding AI Interpretability, Mistral's MoE Model, the EU AI Act

142

07: AI's Materials Science Leap, the AI Alliance, Open Source Versus Closed, and AI Governance

143

06: Unpacking Q* and Amazon Q, Rethinking Organizational Structures with AI Workflows

144

05: Sam Altman is back at OpenAI, When AI is Just "Good Enough," and Generative AI Search

145

04: Custom GPTs and the Argument for Pausing Legacy Upgrades in Favor of AI

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03: Navigating the digitalNow and OpenAI’s Developer Event - Key Takeaways for Associations

147

02: AI Agents in the C-Suite, the AI Executive Order, and Navigating the Future with Roadmaps

148

01: AI in Action - Frameworks, Brain Chips, Robocalls, and Digital Defenders