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Sidecar Sync podcast Episode 95 cover image featuring co-hosts Mallory Mejías and Amith Nagarajan, with the tagline 'AI Knowledge for Associations'

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Rapid Fire AI Updates & The Coming Energy Reckoning | [Sidecar Sync Episode 96]

Mallory Mejias: Aug 25, 2025, 6:48:46 PM

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias tackle the latest developments in AI with a fast-paced series of...

Top-down view of a green circuit board where hot dogs in buns replace copper traces, glowing in places, with labeled sections 'Memory' and 'Processing'.

4 min read

From 250,000 Hot Dogs to One: How Biology Will Transform AI Economics

Mallory Mejias: Aug 25, 2025, 6:06:41 PM

In 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat across from IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer in one of history's most famous matches. Kasparov's brain...

Artificial Intelligence Neuromorphic Computing Nanotechnology

A car dashboard GPS display in dark mode shows three route options to “AI Success” from “Your Association”: a blue toll road (Proprietary APIs, fastest, $$$$), a green balanced route (Open Models as Service, 25 min, $$), and an orange scenic no-toll route (Self-Hosted, 45 min, $), with a glowing AI brain icon marking the destination.

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Big Models, Small Models, Open, Closed: Making Sense of Your AI Options

Mallory Mejias: Aug 20, 2025, 6:00:00 AM

GPT-5. Claude 4.1 Opus. Qwen. Llama. The new gpt-oss models. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the avalanche of AI options, you're not alone. Every...

Artificial Intelligence Closed AI Model OpenAI Open Source Anthropic

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4 min read

OpenAI Embraces 'Open' AI—What It Means for Associations

Mallory Mejias: Aug 19, 2025, 6:00:00 AM

OpenAI—the company that arguably put the "closed" in closed-source AI—just released their first open models in six years. As HubSpot Co-Founder and...

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Open Source

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5 min read

GPT-5: Revolutionary Leap or Overhyped Update? What Associations Need to Know

Mallory Mejias: Aug 18, 2025, 1:02:03 PM

OpenAI's latest flagship model promises to "just do stuff"—that's how AI researcher and Wharton professor Ethan Mollick describes GPT-5's core...

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI

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GPT-5 Has Landed & OpenAI Opens Up | [Sidecar Sync Episode 95]

Mallory Mejias: Aug 15, 2025, 12:46:17 PM

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive into two groundbreaking releases from OpenAI: the long-awaited...

Artificial Intelligence Sidecar Sync Podcast OpenAI Open Source

Sidecar Sync Episode 92 cover with hosts Mallory Mejías and Amith Nagarajan, tagline ‘AI Knowledge for Associations,’ and cartoon robots on both sides.

38 min read

Physical AI: The Robot Takeover We Actually Want | [Sidecar Sync Episode 92]

Mallory Mejias: Jul 25, 2025, 2:45:19 PM

Summary: Are we ready for a world where AI agents write our blogs and robots clean our homes? In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias...

Artificial Intelligence Sidecar Sync Podcast Robotics Physical AI

Cartoon of a father and son posing in front of a pagoda-style temple in a busy Nepalese square.

6 min read

When a 16-Year-Old Teaches AI: The Conor and Finn Grennan Story

Mallory Mejias: Jul 21, 2025, 2:20:56 PM

The organizations Conor Grennan has trained on generative AI are undeniably impressive: OpenAI, McKinsey, Google, JP Morgan, NASA. But perhaps more...

Artificial Intelligence Education Technology

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Next-Gen Knowledge: AI Education with Conor and Finn Grennan | [Sidecar Sync Episode 91]

Mallory Mejias: Jul 18, 2025, 1:55:47 PM

Summary: In this heartwarming and enlightening episode, co-hosts Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias welcome the dynamic father-son duo, Conor and...

Artificial Intelligence Education Sidecar Sync Podcast

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