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Episode 154 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Jev Kicks Off the Decision Model Era, OpenAI Pulls GPT-6.1 Astra, & Waymo Outdrives Us | [Sidecar Sync Episode 154]

Summary: A surprising amount of the work we hand to AI isn't writing at all—it's deciding. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias sort through a busy...

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Episode 153 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan, Mallory Mejias, and Han-Shen Yuan

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Why Vibe Coding Still Needs Engineers with Han-Shen Yuan | [Sidecar Sync Episode 153]

Summary: Vibe coding can patch almost anything, but a duct-tape fix only holds until the water pressure changes. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias...

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Episode 152 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Will AI End Us All? | [Sidecar Sync Episode 152]

Summary: The people building AI are starting to sound scared of what they're building. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias take on the AI safety...

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Episode 151 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Fundamentals of AI, Part 2 | [Sidecar Sync Episode 151]

Summary: Intelligence is turning into a resource you can scale like electricity, and that shift changes what's actually worth your attention in the...

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Episode 150 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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How Pfizer thinks about AI, Thomson 1.0, & Who's Behind Ox Alpha? | [Sidecar Sync Episode 150]

Summary: A drug company CEO just made the best case yet for why platform choice matters less than most associations think. Marking three years of...

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Episode 149 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Spirit Airlines' Data Sale, the Model Too Powerful to Ship, & the Landlords of AI | [Sidecar Sync Episode 149]

Summary: When Spirit Airlines went bankrupt, its planes and gates weren't the only assets on the auction block — Google paid $10 million for its...

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Episode 148 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Fundamentals of AI, Part 1 | [Sidecar Sync Episode 148]

Summary: AI may feel like it arrived overnight, but its foundations have been decades in the making. In part one of a refreshed Foundations of AI...

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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 147 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Open-Weight Models, AI Watermarks, and How to Run Your Own Hackathon | [Sidecar Sync Episode 147]

Summary: Meta and NVIDIA are turning up the heat in the open-weight AI race, while Anthropic is taking a very different approach by watermarking...

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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 146 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan, Mallory Mejias, and Torey Carter-Conneen

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AI-Powered Service for Landscape Architects with Torey Carter-Conneen | [Sidecar Sync Episode 146]

Summary: In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Torey Carter-Conneen, CEO of the American Society of Landscape...

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