Leveraging AI
Leveraging AI
Isar Meitis
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 seasoned professional, 'Leveraging AI' equips you with the knowledge and tools to harness AI's power responsibly and effectively. Tune in weekly for inspiring conversations and real-world applications. Subscribe now and unlock the potential of AI in your business.
315 | Stop Creating From Scratch: Turn Every Video Into a Content Engine with Ryan Robinson
What if your most valuable content is already sitting unused in your video library? Creating more is not always the answer. The bigger opportunity may be turning every video, podcast, training session, or interview you have already produced into a collection of useful, discoverable business assets. The solution is a repeatable AI-powered workflow that transforms unstructured content into optimized blog posts, newsletters, social posts, short-form videos, sales materials, SOPs, and more—withou...
Aug 4
40 min
314 | Top AI Labs begs Washington to slow them down, Altman says Intelligence is a Commodity Multiple models ship, and more important AI News, week ending July 31, 2026
What happens when the companies racing to build the world’s most powerful AI ask the government to slow them down—but refuse to slow down themselves? This week’s AI news reveals an industry caught between enormous commercial opportunity and increasingly uncomfortable risks. Sam Altman says intelligence is becoming a commodity, predicts a “ChatGPT moment” for robotics within two or three years, and acknowledges that frontier labs may need to pace development. At the same time, leading AI figur...
Aug 2
56 min
313 | The things you must know before starting to build any AI automation, but nobody would tell you with Kevin Williams
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...
Jul 28
55 min
312 | OpenAI's rogue model hacks Hugging Face, AI routers take over, record revenues meet collapsing stocks (plus a 2027 warning), Opus 5 drops, and more AI news for the week ending July 24, 2026
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...
Jul 25
50 min
311 | How to generate professional graphic designs and videos for any need in seconds instead of hours or days (web design, interior design, marketing assets, brochures, architecture, etc.)
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...
Jul 21
37 min
310 | 61% Believe AI Agents Could Do Half Their Job in 3 Years, Open Source Models Take Over, OpenAI Launches First Hardware But Faces Apple Lawsuit and more important AI news for July 17, 2026
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...
Jul 18
1 hr 6 min
309 | Claude Fable 5: My Business, Transformed — My Playbook, Shared
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...
Jul 14
28 min
308 | The craziest new releases week in AI history, the shift towards cheaper AI is intensifying, the new roles of the AI era. And more important AI news ending of week of July 11, 2026
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...
Jul 11
55 min
307 | Stop Starting From Scratch: Build AI Projects That Actually Remember with Loren Bartley
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...
Jul 7
49 min
306 | The AI world just did a U-turn on several aspects - Governments’ regulation, model selection, model reliability, and spending, it may have a profound impact on the future of AI, and more important AI news for the weekend ending in July 3, 2026
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...
Jul 4
51 min
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