Sidecar Sync
by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
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Bill Gates on the Turbulent AI Era | 158
Bill Gates on the Turbulent AI Era | 158
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 158 episodes
- Bill Gates on the Turbulent AI Era | 158 · 38 min · Episode 158Send us Fan Mail Bill Gates believes the move into the AI era will be one of the most turbulent stretches in human history, and that there's still no real plan for it. Flying…
- Why Gemini 4 Argon Puts Google Back at the Frontier | 157 · 47 min · Episode 157Send us Fan Mail Most model releases don't earn a full episode, but Google's Gemini 4 Argon makes a strong case for one. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias spend this deep dive…
- Microsoft Pays Anthropic to Fix Copilot, Meta Returns to the Frontier, & Courts Put a Price on Your Content | 156 · 49 min · Episode 156Send us Fan Mail Microsoft spent years building Copilot around a single model maker, and the fix turned out to be paying for a competitor's. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias…
- Fundamentals of AI, Part 3 | 155 · 46 min · Episode 155Send us Fan Mail A chatbot can tell you what to do, but an agent can actually do it. In part three of the refreshed Foundations of AI series, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias…
- Jev Kicks Off the Decision Model Era, OpenAI Pulls GPT-6.1 Astra, & Waymo Outdrives Us | 154 · 53 min · Episode 154Send us Fan Mail 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 stretch of AI news for…
- Why Vibe Coding Still Needs Engineers with Han-Shen Yuan | 153 · 53 min · Episode 153Send us Fan Mail Vibe coding can patch almost anything, but a duct-tape fix only holds until the water pressure changes. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias welcome Han-Shen (Han)…
- Will AI End Us All? | 152 · 54 min · Episode 152Send 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…
- Fundamentals of AI, Part 2 | 151 · 29 min · Episode 151Send 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…
- How Pfizer thinks about AI, Thomson 1.0, & Who's Behind Ox Alpha? | 150 · 53 min · Episode 150Send 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…
- Spirit Airlines' Data Sale, the Model Too Powerful to Ship, & the Landlords of AI | 149 · 52 min · Episode 149Send 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…
- Fundamentals of AI, Part 1 | 148 · 39 min · Episode 148Send 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…
- Open-Weight Models, AI Watermarks, and How to Run Your Own Hackathon | 147 · 46 min · Episode 147Send 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…
- AI-Powered Service for Landscape Architects with Torey Carter-Conneen | 146 · 56 min · Episode 146Send 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…
- Rogue Agents, the Open-Weight Revolt, & Claude Gets Cheaper | 145 · 55 min · Episode 145Send 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…
- The Open-Weight Wave & the Push for AI Referees | 144 · 46 min · Episode 144Send 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 are…
- Suspenders & Double Dutch: Scaling AI Without Losing the Human Touch with Vicki Deal-Williams | 143 · 57 min · Episode 143Send 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 (ASHA)…
- The Data Episode | 142 · 45 min · Episode 142Send 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 and…
- Anthropic’s Rapid Model Releases, GPT 5.6’s Gated Launch, and The Real AI Jobs Story | 141 · 42 min · Episode 141Send 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 tightly…
- Argentina, ARD, & AI’s Environmental Footprint | 140 · 54 min · Episode 140Send 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 entirely by…
- The $400 AI Startup with Jon Cheney | 139 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 139Send 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, Mallory…
