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How Pfizer thinks about AI, Thomson 1.0, & Who's Behind Ox Alpha? | 150

Send us Fan Mail A drug company CEO just made the best case yet for why platform choice matters less than most associations think. Marking three years of Sidecar Sync, A

Spirit Airlines' Data Sale, the Model Too Powerful to Ship, & the Landlords of AI | 149

Send us Fan Mail When Spirit Airlines went bankrupt, its planes and gates weren't the only assets on the auction block — Google paid $10 million for its data. Amith

Fundamentals of AI, Part 1 | 148

Send us Fan Mail 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 series, Amith N

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

Send us Fan Mail Meta and NVIDIA are turning up the heat in the open-weight AI race, while Anthropic is taking a very different approach by watermarking Claude-generated

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

Send us Fan Mail In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Torey Carter-Conneen, CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects (A

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

Send us Fan Mail This week, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a whirlwind of AI developments shaping the future of associations. From Anthropic’s release of a mo

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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a rapidly shifting AI landscape where powerful, low-cost open-weight models from Chinese labs

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

Send us Fan Mail In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Vicki Deal-Williams, CEO of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

The Data Episode | 142

Send us Fan Mail It’s been 130 episodes since Sidecar Sync last did a true deep dive on data—and a lot has changed. In this refreshed 2026 perspective, Amith Nagarajan a

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

Send us Fan Mail This week on Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down a whirlwind week in AI, from Anthropic’s rapid-fire Claude releases to OpenAI’s

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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias explore one of the most provocative ideas in AI yet: companies owned and operated en

The $400 AI Startup with Jon Cheney | 139

Send us Fan Mail What if building a million-dollar business no longer required a team, funding rounds, or even technical expertise? In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mall

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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith and Mallory explore three major developments shaping the future of AI. First, they unpack how an OpenAI model ind

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

Send us Fan Mail In this jam-packed “mini” episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down a whirlwind of recent AI model releases—from Anthropic, Alibaba, Micros

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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias welcomes Dr. Jessica Miles, founder of The Informed Frontier, former VP of Strategy and Investments at H

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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack Google I/O 2026 and what it signals for the future of AI-powered work, search

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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into two major shifts happening beneath the surface of AI: how enterprise softwa

Dark Databases & the State of AI Video | 133

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into the hidden world of “dark databases”—messy, undocumented systems quietly po

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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive into Anthropic’s latest moves with Claude Opus 4.7 and the new Claude Design, a

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

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you put a Siri co-creator and longtime AI pioneer together with a next-generation events strategist? Adam Cheyer—co-creator of Siri, f