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Voice AI Is About to Get a Lot Cheaper and Faster — What Associations Should Know

Mallory Mejias: Apr 6, 2026 5:57:47 PM

If your association has been watching voice AI from the sidelines — maybe impressed by the demos but put off by the cost or complexity — the calculus...

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The AI Harness: Why What's Built Around the Model Matters More Than the Model Itself

Mallory Mejias: Mar 31, 2026 6:30:00 AM

A lot of associations spent the past year or two making what felt like a big decision: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. Teams were assembled....

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Diffusion Models Are Coming - Here's Why Association Leaders Should Care

Mallory Mejias: Nov 25, 2025 6:30:00 AM

This month, Inception Labs released an upgraded version of Mercury, their diffusion-based language model that first launched in February 2025. The...

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Start Small, Think Big: Your First Interactive Web Apps Are Just a Prompt Away

Mallory Mejias: Jun 16, 2025 5:40:22 PM

Need to split the dinner bill with friends? There's an app for that. Want to meditate for just 5 minutes? There's an app for that too. Trying to...

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Online Learning Course Creation at 26x Speed | [Sidecar Sync Episode 86]

Mallory Mejias: Jun 16, 2025 2:34:00 PM

Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias sits down with Jason Marchese, Learning Content Specialist at Sidecar, to explore the...

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Claude 3.7 to 4: What Changed and Why It Matters

Mallory Mejias: Jun 10, 2025 3:41:20 PM

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

Mallory Mejias: Jun 9, 2025 4:48:13 PM

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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