Mallory Mejias

Mallory Mejias is passionate about creating opportunities for association professionals to learn, grow, and better serve their members using artificial intelligence. She enjoys blending creativity and innovation to produce fresh, meaningful content for the association space. Mallory co-hosts and produces the Sidecar Sync podcast, where she delves into the latest trends in AI and technology, translating them into actionable insights.

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AI Video Gets Real: What Veo 3 Means for Association Content

We hit a major AI milestone recently: AI video that looks as real as video shot on a camera. For the first time, we're seeing AI-generated clips that cross the threshold from obviously (even comically) fake to "wait, is this real?"

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A friendly robot labeled “Claude 4” repairs a circuit board in a bright, modern lab, surrounded by wires and tools in soft peach, sage green, and yellow tones.

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Claude 3.7 to 4: What Changed and Why It Matters

If you're using generative AI regularly, you've probably started forming loyalty to one of the major models out there. I'm an avid Claude user...

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A proud tortoise bites a “Gemini” gold medal, wearing “Veo 3” and “NotebookLM” medals around its neck.

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Google's AI Arsenal: What Association Leaders Need to Know from I/O 2025

While the AI world seemed to be playing follow-the-leader, Google was taking a different approach. Sure, they weren't first to market with a ChatGPT...

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Sidecar Sync podcast cover with hosts, tagline 'AI Knowledge for Associations', and logos for Claude and Google I/O.

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Generative Video Meets Deep Think at Google I/O & Claude 4 Finds Its Voice | [Sidecar Sync Episode 85]

Summary: In this electric episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack the latest AI announcements from Google I/O and the...

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Four professionals search as coins and treasure hide in plain sight, in a warm, cartoon-style scene.

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The Unexpected AI Education Market Hiding in Your Membership

What do these people have in common: a college-grad accountant, a mid-career lawyer, an elk farmer, and a marine retailer?

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How to Think Like AlphaEvolve: The Framework That Discovers Better Solutions

We've spent years teaching AI to think like humans. Neural networks mimic how our brains process information. Machine learning models are trained to...

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Google's AlphaEvolve Solved What Stumped Mathematicians for 56 Years (Here's Why You Should Care)

Google's AI just reduced matrix multiplication from 49 operations to... wait for it... 48! Doesn't sound impressive? This tiny improvement eluded the...

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Breaking Math with Google’s AlphaEvolve | [Sidecar Sync Episode 84]

Summary: This week, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive deep into Google's groundbreaking AI breakthrough—AlphaEvolve. In their first-ever...

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The $3 Billion Signal: Why Your Association Can Finally Build What It Needs

OpenAI just spent $3 billion acquiring Windsurf, an AI-powered coding tool. Now, $3 billion might sound like an enormous sum, but for a company with...

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