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Claude's Design Coup & The Curse of Work Slop | 132
Apr 30, 2026
47m 25s
How Siri’s Co-Creator Predicts the Next AI Wave with Adam & Noah Cheyer | 131
Apr 23, 2026
59m 35s
The Little AI Models That Could | 130
Apr 16, 2026
51m 36s
An FBI Operative’s Guide to Cybersecurity, Deepfakes, and Modern Spycraft with Eric O’Neill | 129
Apr 9, 2026
52m 10s
The Claude Mythos Leak & the Reality of Computer-Using Agents | 128
Apr 2, 2026
48m 51s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/30/26 |  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 conversational visual creation tool that can generate decks, prototypes, one-pagers, landing pages, and even animations from simple prompts. Mallory shares her first hands-on experiment with Claude Design, while Amith breaks down why stronger visual intelligence matters for computer use, design workflows, and real-time AI app... | 47m 25s | ||||||
| 4/23/26 |  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, founder of Viv Labs, and a builder behind several influential AI startups—and Noah Cheyer, founder of Silicon Valley Speakers and a close observer of how event planners and audiences are responding to AI, join Mallory Mejias for a father-son conversation on where this technology has been and where it’s headed next. The episode ... | 59m 35s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 |  The Little AI Models That Could | 130 | Send us Fan Mail This week on Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias trace one of the biggest stories in AI: how cutting-edge intelligence keeps getting compressed into smaller, faster, cheaper models. From GPT-4-era pricing to today’s open models like Gemma 4, they unpack the forces driving this shift, including distillation, mixture-of-experts architectures, quantization, and Google Research’s new TurboQuant breakthrough. Along the way, they explore what this means for association... | 51m 36s | ||||||
| 4/9/26 |  An FBI Operative’s Guide to Cybersecurity, Deepfakes, and Modern Spycraft with Eric O’Neill | 129 | Send us Fan Mail In this interview edition of Sidecar Sync, Mallory sits down with Eric O’Neill—former FBI counterintelligence operative, attorney, cybersecurity expert, and founder of The Georgetown Group and NeXasure AI—whose career has spanned undercover FBI work, national security law, and advising organizations on how to defend themselves against modern cyber threats. Eric shares stories from the extraordinary operation that led to the capture of Robert Hanssen, the longtime FBI agent wh... | 52m 10s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 |  The Claude Mythos Leak & the Reality of Computer-Using Agents | 128 | Send us Fan Mail This week on Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a whirlwind of Claude news, from Anthropic’s accidental “Mythos” leak and what it could signal about the next major leap in AI capability, to the increasingly practical reality of Claude using your computer to complete real tasks on your behalf. They also dig into Mistral’s new open-weight text-to-speech model, the growing cybersecurity implications of more powerful frontier models, and what all of this mean... | 48m 51s | ||||||
| 3/26/26 |  A New Era of AI Education with the ‘AI Learning Hub’ & The Rise of OpenClaw | 127 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, co-hosts Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive into the explosive rise of OpenClaw—an open-source AI agent that’s taken the tech world by storm. From being dubbed “the next ChatGPT” at NVIDIA GTC to triggering widespread security concerns, OpenClaw represents both the promise and peril of the agent era. Amith breaks down what OpenClaw actually does, why its viral adoption matters more than its underlying tech, and how its vulnerabilities hig... | 48m 16s | ||||||
| 3/19/26 |  Meet Grace: Sidecar’s New AI Agent Takes the Stage | 126 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias pull back the curtain on one of Sidecar’s most ambitious experiments yet: Grace, a real-time AI audio agent designed to transform how organizations engage with users. From a beachside hackathon to a live deployment in under two months, they unpack the full journey—covering the business case, rapid development process, tech stack decisions, and early learnings. Along the way, they explore how audio AI captures... | 50m 30s | ||||||
| 3/12/26 |  AI Agents Shake Up the Software Market, Cybersecurity's Arms Race, & Future-Proofing Your Stack | 125 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack three major developments shaping the AI landscape for associations and nonprofits. First, they explore the rapid evolution of AI models—including ultra-fast releases like Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and the growing capabilities of systems like GPT‑5.4 that can interact directly with legacy software. Next, they discuss how AI agents could disrupt traditional software pricing models, potentially reducing the n... | 52m 33s | ||||||
| 3/5/26 |  The State of AI Agents in 2026 | 124 | Send us Fan Mail In this special solo edition of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias unpacks Anthropic’s 2026 State of AI Agents report and translates what it actually means for associations. Drawing from data across 500+ technical leaders, she explores how organizations are moving beyond basic chatbots to multi-stage AI agents that handle workflows end to end. From research and reporting to customer service and coding, the results are clear: speed and quality are driving ROI—not just cost savings. ... | 39m 18s | ||||||
| 2/26/26 |  Agent Tollgates & MCP Mayhem: Who Really Owns Your Data? | 123 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Mallory and Amith dive deep into two seismic shifts rocking the AI landscape for associations: the rise of “agent tollgates” in SaaS platforms and the growing security concerns around Model Context Protocol (MCP). Sparked by comments from HubSpot’s CEO about monitoring and monetizing agent access to customer data, the conversation explores what happens when vendors start charging for AI agents to access “your” data—and why this may signal ... | 53m 59s | ||||||
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| 2/19/26 |  The Maia 200 Breakthrough, Project Genie’s Living Worlds, & The New Rules of Work | 122 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias zoom out to explore the AI infrastructure quietly reshaping everything beneath the surface—from Microsoft’s new Maia 200 custom AI chip and the race to lower inference costs, to Google’s Project Genie and the rise of interactive world models that could transform everything from credentialing simulations to digital twins of annual conferences. They also unpack bold predictions about the future of work, includi... | 42m 44s | ||||||
| 2/12/26 |  From Deep Learning Indaba to Algorithmic Sovereignty with Benjamin Rosman | 121 | Send us Fan Mail If you think the future of AI is being decided only in Silicon Valley or Beijing, this conversation will stretch your perspective. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias sit down with Benjamin “Benji” Rosman—Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Founder of the Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute, and recently named to the Time 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2025—to explore how Africa is building its AI ecosystem from the ground up. From t... | 52m 44s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 |  Kimi K2.5’s Swarm of Agents, Claude Goes Vertical, and AI Data Centers in Space | 120 | Send us Fan Mail In this high-octane episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith and Mallory cover an ambitious trio of AI developments with massive implications for associations. They dive into Kimi K2.5, a Chinese open-source model built for multimodal agent swarms that rival GPT-5.2 at a fraction of the cost. Then, they explore Claude’s new domain-specific plugins for Cowork and what it means for associations when Big AI moves into vertical markets like legal and finance. Finally, they unpack Elon Musk... | 51m 10s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  From White House Strategy to Youth Safety Tools: Navigating AI’s Risks and Rewards with Bruce Reed | 119 | Send us Fan Mail What do AI companions, deepfakes, and White House briefings have in common? Bruce Reed. In this episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan are joined by Bruce Reed, Head of AI at Common Sense Media and former Deputy Chief of Staff in the Biden-Harris White House. Bruce shares an insider’s view on how the U.S. government reacted to the launch of ChatGPT, the urgent need for AI guardrails for youth, and why you don’t need to be a tech expert to lead responsibly. Bruce R... | 45m 19s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 |  Global Gaps in AI Use & What Happens When Capital Doesn’t Need Labor? | 118 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan unpack two powerful narratives shaping our AI future: the surprising global leaderboard of AI adoption and a provocative economic thought experiment on capital, labor, and AGI. From Mallory’s firsthand experience using Claude to navigate the stress of first-time home buying to Microsoft’s latest diffusion report revealing where AI is truly taking hold (spoiler: it’s not the U.S.), this episode blends the pers... | 48m 45s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 |  The Physical AI Moment: Dispatches from CES 2026 | 117 | Send us Fan Mail CES 2026 brought the heat—and the robots. In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down the biggest stories from the Consumer Electronics Show, where AI made its move from code to corporeal. They cover Meta’s $2B acquisition of Manus, Groq’s $20B licensing deal with Nvidia, and how LPUs are set to revolutionize inference computing. From humanoid robots dancing across stages to Nvidia’s open-source models reshaping robotics and autonomous vehicles, this episod... | 46m 34s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 |  The 95% Problem: Fixing What’s Broken in Enterprise AI | 116 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into the startling findings of a recent MIT study: 95% of enterprise AI initiatives are failing to deliver measurable impact. Why are so many organizations investing in AI only to watch their efforts fizzle? Mallory and Amith unpack 10 core reasons for these failures—ranging from building chat-first features instead of end-to-end workflows, to skipping the unglamorous data cleanup that powers real results... | 38m 47s | ||||||
| 1/1/26 |  The New Year AI Checkup: What We Got Right in 2025 and What’s Coming in 2026 | 115 | Send us Fan Mail In this annual predictions spectacular, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias kick off 2026 by looking back at how well their 2025 AI forecasts held up (spoiler: pretty darn well) and then boldly lay out what’s coming next for artificial intelligence, associations, and knowledge work. From real-world AI recruiting agents and voice-first interfaces to the rise of AI literacy as a job requirement, the shift from SEO to AEO, and the very real possibility of AI-native platforms disr... | 51m 41s | ||||||
| 12/25/25 |  Supersonic Moments: The NFL’s Flight Problem & 100 Trillion Tokens | 114 | Send us Fan Mail In this special holiday edition of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unwrap two stories that feel wildly different—but point to the same big idea: technology breaks barriers we once assumed were permanent. First, they dive into the NFL’s quiet fascination with supersonic flight and how faster-than-sound travel could reshape sports, conferences, and global strategy. Then they shift gears to AI, unpacking a massive new study analyzing 100 trillion tokens of real-... | 37m 12s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 |  Domain-Specific AI : How Legal, Medical, and Engineering Are Being Reimagined | 113 | Send us Fan Mail Domain-specific AI is having its ‘main character’ moment—and Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down three sharp examples. They unpack Three Points Law, an AI-first UK firm using tools like Legora and Qanooni to move beyond billable hours into value-based pricing; dive into Project Prometheus, Jeff Bezos’ big bet on ‘physical AI’ that learns from real-world experiments; and explore OpenEvidence as evidence-grounded clinical copilots surge in adoption alongside the Ameri... | 37m 41s | ||||||
| 12/11/25 |  Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: AI & Legal Relevance with Ernie the Attorney | 112 | Send us Fan Mail In this eye-opening episode, Mallory Mejias sits down with Ernie Svenson—better known as Ernie the Attorney—to talk tech, tradition, and the tectonic shifts in how professionals learn and connect. A former litigator turned AI advocate, Ernie shares why he believes many associations are at a crossroads: adapt to how members actually work today or risk becoming irrelevant. From the viral LinkedIn post that questioned the value of bar associations, to the behind-the-scenes of bu... | 50m 50s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 |  The November Model Wave: DeepSeek 3.2, Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, Mistral 3, and OpenAI's Code Red Moment | 111 | Send us Fan Mail This week on Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan unpack one of the most explosive weeks in AI so far—from the stunning debut of Google's Gemini 3 to the jaw-dropping image generation of Nano Banana Pro, and the best-in-class coding chops of Claude Opus 4.5. They also dive into Mistral 3 and DeepSeek 3.2, two powerful open-weight alternatives making waves in the AI space. With OpenAI allegedly declaring a Code Red in response, the co-hosts break down what this all... | 49m 49s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 |  Claiming the Right to Win: How IFT Built CoDeveloper with Jay Gilbert | 110 | Send us Fan Mail When an association with 85 years of food science knowledge decides to launch an AI product, what happens? In this episode, Mallory Mejias sits down with Jay Gilbert, Director of Scientific Programs and Product Development at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), to explore how IFT built CoDeveloper, an AI-powered platform designed to streamline R&D in food innovation. Jay shares how his journey from student member to staff gave him a unique edge in shaping tech that... | 39m 08s | ||||||
| 11/20/25 |  The Race for AI Speed, Efficiency, & Infrastructure: Haiku 4.5, Diffusion Models, & Project Suncatcher | 109 | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan dive into three high-octane AI developments reshaping the landscape of innovation. They kick things off with Claude Haiku 4.5, Anthropic’s blazing-fast small model offering near-frontier performance at a fraction of the cost. Then, the hosts explore diffusion models—an architectural shake-up that could revolutionize how AI generates language. Finally, they venture into orbit with Google’s ambitious Project Su... | 46m 45s | ||||||
| 11/13/25 |  Live from digitalNow 2025: Inside the Association Evolution | 108 | Send us Fan Mail Live from digitalNow 2025 in Chicago, this special edition of Sidecar Sync brings together voices from across the association world, sharing real-life examples of AI implementation, leadership innovation, and strategic transformation. Mallory Mejias speaks with leaders from the American Paint Horse Association, the Missouri State Teachers Association, AGRiP, and more to uncover how associations are moving from ideation to execution with AI. Whether it’s slashing support calls... | 29m 25s | ||||||
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