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Leveraging AI

Dive into the world of artificial intelligence with "Leveraging AI," a podcast tailored for forward-thinking business professionals. Each episode brings insightful discussions on how AI can ethically transform business practices, offering practical solutions to day-to-day business challenges.Join our host Isar Meitis (4 time CEO), and expert guests as they turn AI"s complexities into actionable insights, and explore its ethical implications in the business world. Whether you are an AI novice or a

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313 | The things you must know before starting to...

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2026/07/28

What happens when your shiny new AI ecosystem becomes a tangled web of confused databases, exposed client information, broken automations, and weekend-consuming technical rabbit holes? You do not need more AI tools. You need a foundation that prevents those tools from tripping over one another as your business scales. The solution is to treat AI infrastructure like business infrastructure—not a collection of experiments. In this episode of *Leveraging AI*, Isar Meitis and Kevin Williams rev...

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312 | OpenAI's rogue model hacks Hugging Face, AI...

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2026/07/25

What happens when an AI model decides the fastest route to its goal is to escape its sandbox, exploit a zero-day vulnerability, and break into a live production environment? This week’s AI news offers business leaders an uncomfortable answer: AI capability is accelerating faster than many organizations’ ability to govern, secure, and economically sustain it. The smart response is not to panic—or blindly chase every new model. It is to rethink AI security, model selection, infrastructure spend...

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311 | How to generate professional graphic designs...

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2026/07/21

What if you could turn a rough idea, a handful of inspiration images, or even a back-of-the-napkin sketch into a professional design or promotional video—in seconds rather than days? Today’s AI design tools can help you create mood boards, photorealistic rooms, 3D objects, architectural visuals, marketing assets, product advertisements, and videos without mastering a long list of complicated creative platforms. The key is to stop treating AI as a one-off image generator. Instead, build repeat...

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310 | 61% Believe AI Agents Could Do Half Their Job...

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2026/07/18

Open source AI models just hit 41% of Hugging Face downloads — and the real cost gap is 90% or more. Here's what that means for your business. The numbers moved fast this week. Chinese open-weight models now dominate downloads, the quality gap versus closed models has shrunk to 3.3%, and a new repo opens on Hugging Face every seven seconds. Half of the Fortune 500 is already running open source models in production. Isar walks through the new frontier open models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4, Thin...

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309 | Claude Fable 5: My Business, Transformed — My...

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2026/07/14

Could one AI model save you weeks of work—or even reshape how you run your business? After spending two weeks putting Claude Fable 5 through real-world business challenges, the answer surprised me. This wasn't about writing better prompts or generating content faster. It was about handing complex, multi-step strategic work to AI and getting back solutions that would normally require weeks of research, multiple consultants, and significant investment. In this episode, I share exactly how I app...

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308 | The craziest new releases week in AI history,...

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2026/07/11

Can AI keep getting smarter while becoming dramatically cheaper? This week may go down as the biggest release week in AI history. OpenAI, Meta, SpaceX AI, and Anthropic all introduced major new models and capabilities but the biggest story isn't just who launched what. It's the dramatic shift toward lower-cost, highly capable AI and what that means for every business. In this episode, Isar Meitis breaks down the week's biggest announcements, explains why the AI race is moving beyond benchmark...

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49:28

307 | Stop Starting From Scratch: Build AI Projects...

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2026/07/07

What if the biggest thing holding back your AI results isn't your prompts... it's your workflow? Most people treat AI like a chatbot—opening a new conversation, asking a few questions, and starting over the next day. The result? Lost context, inconsistent outputs, and hours wasted trying to recreate work that's already been done. In this episode of Leveraging AI, Isar Meitis is joined by AI strategist Loren Bartley to reveal a smarter way to work. You'll discover how to build AI Projects that...

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306 | The AI world just did a U-turn on several...

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2026/07/04

Will governments, budgets, and AI economics—not model intelligence—determine who wins the AI race? This week, the biggest AI stories weren't just about new models. They revealed three major shifts that every business leader should be paying attention to. Governments are becoming active gatekeepers of frontier AI. Companies are moving away from "use the smartest model for everything" toward cost-optimized AI strategies. And specialized AI solutions are rapidly gaining ground over one-size-fits...

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305 | Mastering AI Automation: Custom GPTs to Agents...

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2026/06/30

Are your Custom GPTs living on borrowed time—or is this the perfect opportunity to build something even better? Rumors that OpenAI may phase out Custom GPTs have sparked plenty of debate. But instead of focusing on what might disappear, this episode explores what comes next—and why business leaders should be paying attention now. If you've invested time building AI automations, or you're just starting to explore how AI can streamline your business, you'll discover how Custom GPTs, Projects, S...

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304 | Chat is dead... long live agents - 99.8% of...

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2026/06/27

Is your business ready for a world where AI doesn't just answer questions—but gets the work done? The age of agentic AI has officially arrived. Companies are rapidly shifting from chat-based AI to autonomous AI agents capable of completing hours of work with minimal human involvement. The organizations that adapt early are likely to gain a significant competitive advantage, while those that hesitate risk falling behind. In this episode, Isar Metis unpacks the biggest AI developments of the we...

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303 | From ChatGPT to Codex: How AI Agents Are...

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2026/06/23

What if the biggest AI opportunity for your business isn't ChatGPT—but the tool quietly replacing it? While much of the AI conversation has focused on Claude Code and coding assistants, a new contender is changing how business leaders think about productivity, automation, and execution. In this episode, Dan Sanchez joins Isar Meitis to explore how OpenAI Codex has evolved far beyond software development. Together they reveal how AI agents can proactively find context, take action, automate co...

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302 | ChatGPT 1B user milestone but slips below 50%...

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2026/06/20

Can a company reach 1 billion users before figuring out how to make money—and still dominate the future of AI? This week’s AI news cycle delivered a fascinating mix of milestones, competitive shakeups, enterprise AI breakthroughs, security concerns, and agentic innovation. OpenAI crossed the historic 1-billion-user mark, Microsoft opened Copilot CoWork to the masses, SpaceX made a massive move with its $60 billion Cursor acquisition, and new open-source challengers emerged to challenge the in...

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301 | The AI That Builds Itself — And the Government...

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2026/06/16

What happens when AI starts building the next generation of AI—and even its creators admit they don't know what comes next? This week, we explore a convergence of breakthroughs, billion-dollar bets, government oversight, and legal accountability that could reshape business faster than most leaders are prepared for. Anthropic's latest research suggests we're approaching an era where AI systems increasingly improve themselves, while governments are simultaneously looking for ways to slow, regul...

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300 |💥 AI done right - behind the scenes of the most...

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2026/06/13

What does AI transformation actually look like when it's done right? After 300 episodes exploring AI's potential, it's time to go behind the scenes with one of the most advanced AI adoption stories we've seen. Not a Silicon Valley software company. Not an AI startup. A manufacturing business with 360 employees that has embedded AI into the way it works, builds, sells, and innovates. In this special 300th episode, Isar Meitis sits down with Ari Supran, CEO of Sonance, to unpack the real-world ...

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299 | The magical world of AI skills - stop chatting...

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2026/06/09

What if AI could produce two weeks of business analysis in five minutes? Most leaders are still using AI as a chatbot—asking questions, generating content, and brainstorming ideas. But the real opportunity lies elsewhere: teaching AI how to execute repeatable business processes on demand. In this episode, Isar Meitis reveals why AI skills may be the most important advancement in practical AI today. You'll learn how to transform AI from a conversation partner into a digital coworker that can g...

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298 | $500M token charge?! 🤯 The AI race is changing,...

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2026/06/06

Secure your spot for the MULTI-AGENT ORCHESTRATION AI COURSE: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/ Are AI jobs disappearing faster than they're being created—or are we asking the wrong question? For months, AI leaders warned of massive job losses. Now, some of the same voices are changing their tune. But while Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are sounding more optimistic, tech layoffs continue to climb, AI anxiety is spreading across the workforce, and business leaders are faci...

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297 | From Prompt to Powerful: The Secret Formula...

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2026/06/02

What if the problem with your AI videos isn't the AI... it's the story? Most business leaders are racing to adopt AI-powered content creation. Yet despite having access to incredible tools, many are still producing videos that fail to engage, inspire, or convert. In this episode, former TV Executive Producer Eve Whitaker reveals why great video content starts long before you open an AI video generator. Drawing on more than 15 years in television production and her deep expertise in AI workflo...

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296 | How AI Gets You Better Leads - Instead of More...

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2026/05/26

Secure your spot for the MULTI-AGENT ORCHESTRATION AI COURSE: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/ What if your biggest growth problem isn’t a lack of leads—but too many of the wrong ones? Most business leaders assume more traffic, more campaigns, and more leads equal more growth. But what if the real opportunity is creating fewer, smarter, higher-converting interactions? In this conversation, Andy Crestodina breaks down how AI is transforming B2B lead generation—not by cr...

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295 | The Foothills of the Singularity: Connecting...

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2026/05/23

This week wasn’t just another wave of AI announcements. It may have been the week the industry quietly crossed into a different phase entirely. In this episode, Isar connects the dots behind one of the biggest weeks in AI so far—from Anthropic’s explosive growth, to Google I/O, OpenAI’s legal win, NVIDIA’s record earnings, and Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic to work on recursive self-improvement. Individually, each story matters. Together, they point to something bigger: accelerating AI...

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294 | 3 Surprisingly Simple Ways To Connect Claude...

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2026/05/19

Can Claude really run major parts of your business… if it can’t even be triggered from the outside world? Turns out: yes—but only if you know the workarounds. In this episode, we tackle one of Claude’s biggest limitations and break down practical ways to connect it with the rest of your business ecosystem. If you're building AI-powered workflows and feel like you've hit a wall, this episode may save you weeks of experimentation. The takeaway: don't wait for perfect tools. The smartest operato...

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