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by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
Welcome to Sidecar Sync: Your Weekly Dose of Innovation for Associations. Hosted by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias, this podcast is your definitive source for the latest news, insights, and trends in the association world with a special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its pivotal role in shaping the future. Each week, we delve into the most pressing topics, spotlighting the transformative role of emerging technologies and their profound impact on associations. With a commitment to cutting through the noise, Sidecar Sync offers listeners clear, informed discussions, expert perspectives, and a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities facing associations today. Whether you're an association professional, tech enthusiast, or just keen on staying updated, Sidecar Sync ensures you're always ahead of the curve. Join us for enlightening conversations and a fresh take on the ever-evolving world of associations.
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- 4 days ago54 min
Will AI End Us All? | 152
Send us Fan Mail The people building AI are starting to sound scared of what they're building. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias take on the AI safety debate that broke into public view this September: a researcher's resignation from Anthropic, alignment lead Evan Hubinger's one-in-ten estimate of catastrophic risk, and the "Pacing the Frontier" letter that put OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind leadership on the same page. They trace what happened when OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Fac...
- 1 weeks ago28 min
Fundamentals of AI, Part 2 | 151
Send us Fan Mail Intelligence is turning into a resource you can scale like electricity, and that shift changes what's actually worth your attention in the AI news cycle. In part two of their refreshed Fundamentals of AI series, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias pick up exactly where part one left off, moving from definitions and building blocks into what abundant intelligence means in practice for associations. They trace AI's growing role in drug discovery, diagnostics, and materials scien...
- 2 weeks ago53 min
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, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into Pfizer's new playbook for organizing around AI, Thomson Reuters' $40 million bet on building its own legal model instead of renting one, and the six-day mystery of Ox Alpha, an anonymous coding model that became OpenRouter's biggest launch ever. They trace Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla's t...
- 3 weeks ago52 min
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 Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias use that sale to dig into what's actually valuable in AI right now: not bigger models, but the specialized data only your organization holds. They trace the Spirit Airlines deal, unpack OpenAI's Astra model solving open math problems that had stumped researchers for decades, and explain Neoclouds, the ...
- Aug 20, 202639 min
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 Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack the essential concepts association leaders need to understand in today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape. They trace the convergence of compute, data, and algorithms that fueled the generative AI boom, challenge assumptions about whether we’ve already reached some definitions of AGI, and explai...
- Aug 13, 202645 min
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 content. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack what these moves mean for associations, from choosing models and inference providers to avoiding lock-in at the agent harness layer. They also explore why AI models are becoming increasingly commoditized, where proprietary models may still have an edge, and why Claude’s new w...
- Aug 6, 202656 min
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 (ASLA), to explore what it really looks like when AI becomes embedded in everyday work. Torey shares how ASLA moved beyond experimentation to fully operationalize AI across the organization—from internal, tiered training programs to AI-powered member service workflows that generate reports and respond to inquiries in minutes. Th...
- Jul 30, 202655 min
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 more efficient Claude Opus 5 with dynamic “effort dialing,” to a shocking autonomous AI cyberattack that breached Hugging Face, the conversation dives deep into what these moments mean for trust, safety, and strategy. They explore the growing divide over open vs. closed AI models, why major tech players are rallying around open ...
About Sidecar Sync
Welcome to Sidecar Sync: Your Weekly Dose of Innovation for Associations. Hosted by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias, this podcast is your definitive source for the latest news, insights, and trends in the association world with a special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its pivotal role in shaping the future. Each week, we delve into the most pressing topics, spotlighting the transformative role of emerging technologies and their profound impact on associations. With a commitment to cutting through the noise, Sidecar Sync offers listeners clear, informed discussions, expert perspectives, and a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities facing associations today. Whether you're an association professional, tech enthusiast, or just keen on staying updated, Sidecar Sync ensures you're always ahead of the curve. Join us for enlightening conversations and a fresh take on the ever-evolving world of associations.
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