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What happens when AI not only matches but beats the best human minds?

OpenAI and Google DeepMind just entered  and won the "Olympics of coding", outperforming every top university team in the world… using off-the-shelf models. Now, combine that with agents, robotics, and a trillion-dollar infrastructure arms race, and business as we know it is about to change — fast.

In this Weekend News episode of Leveraging AI, Isar Meitis breaks down the real-world implications of AI’s explosive progress on your workforce, your bottom line, and your industry’s future.

Whether you’re leading digital transformation or trying to stay ahead of disruption, this episode delivers the insights you need — minus the fluff.

In this session, you'll discover:
01:12 – AI beats elite humans at coding using public models
05:15 – OpenAI’s GDP-VAL study: AI outperforms humans in 40–49% of real-world jobs
12:56 – KPMG report: 42% of enterprises already deploy AI agents
18:02 – Allianz warns: 15–20% of companies could vanish without AI adaptation
29:22 – OpenAI + Nvidia announce $100B+ infrastructure build
33:30 – Deutsche Bank: AI spending may be masking a U.S. recession
43:15 – Sam Altman introduces “Pulse”: ChatGPT gets proactive
and more!

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Are you still treating AI like a glorified spell-checker?

If so, you're missing out on at least 90% of its power and that power can save your team hours, boost productivity, and give your business a serious edge.

In this solo masterclass, host Isar Meitis walks through the real-world, tactical ways you should be using AI, especially ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to automate complex workflows, enhance proposal writing, improve learning, and cut down time spent on repetitive tasks.

From uploading documents the right way to building custom GPTs that can practically write your RFPs for you, this episode is packed with actionable techniques that most professionals have no idea exist — and it's all tailored for business use.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• The 4-part prompt framework that stops hallucinations and delivers reliable citations
• How to build and share a prompt library for your team’s efficiency
• The secrets of NotebookLM, Study Mode, and Custom GPTs for business use
• Real examples of interactive AI tools that go beyond text — from simulations to training games

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
• YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
• Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
• Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

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Is AI really ready to revolutionize the workplace—or are we all just beta testers with fancy job titles?

In this episode of The Leveraging AI Podcast, Isar Meitis dives into the latest reports, product launches, and behind-the-scenes drama shaping the future of artificial intelligence. From jaw-dropping usage stats from OpenAI and Anthropic, to Microsoft’s digital agents with KPIs, to the billion-dollar race to build gym-trained AI employees—this is the stuff the headlines aren’t telling you.

In this session, you’ll discover:
- How 700M people are using ChatGPT every week (and why 73% of it isn't even for work)
- Why Claude is powering a silent automation revolution (77% of its tasks are full-blown process automation)
- Why most employees are *still* barely scratching the surface of AI at work
- The alarming global divide in AI adoption (Spoiler: Israel and Singapore are leading by miles)
- OpenAI’s shocking take on hallucinations—and why your AI might be confidently wrong, often
- Why Salesforce’s AI agent rollout is a cautionary tale in overhype and underdelivery
- Microsoft + Workday’s plan to treat AI agents like actual employees (KPIs and all)
- Meta’s AR glasses and the “Zoom avatar” future that’s either cool or creepy
* 🛒 Why OpenAI wants ChatGPT to start shopping for you (and why that’s a data privacy nightmare)
- The billion-dollar training gyms building AI agents to take over real-world business tasks
- The inevitable tension between faster, cheaper, and... accurate AI
- What business leaders need to *urgently* understand about reinforcement learning and economic displacement

📘 OpenAI: Real-World Usage of ChatGPT
🔗 Economic Research: ChatGPT Usage - https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f142e/economic-research-chatgpt-usage-paper.pdf 

📘 Anthropic: Claude Usage & AI in the Economy
🔗 Anthropic Economic Index – September 2025 - https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report 

About Leveraging AI

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• Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

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Can your AI tool actually do what it promises or is it just fancy fluff?

When it comes to running your business, choosing the right AI platform isn't just about features—it's about real-world performance under pressure. In this episode, I share my experience which AI platform is actually better for things like custom workflows, client-specific automation, data dashboards, deep research, or image generation, this episode is your ultimate field guide.

In this session, you'll discover:
- Why ChatGPT crushed Gemini in memory, personalization, and multi-step automations
- How Gemini unexpectedly won in dashboard building and deep market research
- Real use cases comparing Gems vs. Custom GPTs and the key limitation that still plagues Gemini
- A real-world test of building data-rich dashboards in Gemini vs. ChatGPT (with shocking results)
- How both tools struggled to pull business travel info across emails, proposals, and calendars and why that matters
- A step-by-step visual branding test using AI image generation and who came out on top
- The one killer feature ChatGPT offers that Gemini just doesn’t match (yet)

💼 Want to work smarter with AI? Follow Isar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
• YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
• Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
• Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

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Money flood - insane revenue and valuation growth, AI impacting every industry, Open AI and Microsoft deal, new time compute records are changing the game, the first AI government member, and more important AI news for the week ending on September 12 2025

Is AI on the verge of world domination… or an economic meltdown?

This week’s AI headlines weren’t about shiny new model releases and that’s a good thing. It gave us time to zoom out and examine the billion-dollar chess game shaping our future.

From OpenAI’s $115B spend-fest to the first AI government cabinet member, and from Replit’s code-writing agents to copyright lawsuits with a twist — this episode is a crash course in just how *wild* and *wide* AI's reach has become.

Here’s your witty but grounded executive summary of the week’s most impactful AI news — handpicked and broken down by your host, Isar Meitis, with direct implications for how business leaders should think, adapt, and move.

In this session, you’ll discover:
- OpenAI’s capital-intensive moonshot and why it may still not be profitable in 2030
- Microsoft’s unexpected pivot: From exclusive OpenAI integration to paying AWS for Claude
- The first AI cabinet member in Albania here’s why it might be brilliant (or backfire)
- AI-made movies & TV are no longer a fantasy, OpenAI is backing a full-length feature
- Funding frenzy decoded: Databricks, Replit, Perplexity, and others are raising billions
- "Thinking" AI that works for hours: How new models are pushing past past limitations
- 5,000 AI podcasts a week for \$1 each?! The scary-fascinating rise of mass-produced audio
- FTC probes AI’s influence on kids and what it means for regulation & trust
- AI-powered AR glasses from Amazon — coming to delivery drivers and consumers near you
- Duke gives GPT-4o to all students what this means for the future of higher education
- Why Apple is strangely silent on AI this year, and what it could cost them

Google Cloud AI Agent Handbook (PDF) - https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/ai_agents_handbook.pdf

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
• YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
• Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
• Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

What if you could reverse engineer viral content and use AI to build your own content machine without writing a single line of code?

In this session, we go beyond theory and into execution. Step by step, you'll learn how to scrape top-performing YouTube content, analyze it using Gemini and ChatGPT, extract what works, and generate AI prompts that produce high-performing visuals and copy. All built with accessible tools like Make, Airtable, and ChatGPT API.

Our guest, Nadia Privalikhina, is not just a power user, she’s a systems thinker with a bias for action. With experience leading innovation and AI at scale, she's now building cutting-edge automation systems that blend marketing intuition with serious technical chops. Her content regularly turns heads and clicks on LinkedIn. This is your chance to see exactly how she does it.

Expect live demos. Real prompts. Actual outputs. And the exact workflow behind a system that can transform how your business creates content.

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
• YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
• Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
• Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Check the self-paced AI Business Transformation course - https://multiplai.ai/self-paced-online-course/ 

Are you ready for a future where AI decides who gets hired and who gets replaced?

This week's news drop brought no major model releases… but that quiet was deceptive. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Salesforce unleashed a wave of updates that will reshape how companies train, hire, and operate with AI at the core.

From OpenAI’s pledge to certify 10 million Americans in AI fluency, to Walmart and Microsoft arming their workforces with AI education, to Salesforce quietly replacing thousands of workers with AI agents—this episode delivers the full picture, not just the PR.

In this session, you'll discover:

• What OpenAI’s new AI job platform means for future hiring and retention
• Why Walmart is going all-in on AI workforce training (and what that means for your org)
• The real story behind Salesforce cutting 44% of its support team
• Microsoft’s bold AI education push and how it aligns with White House initiatives
• OpenAI’s 5-part playbook for C-suite leaders to implement AI responsibly and effectively
• Why AI literacy is quickly becoming a non-negotiable skill for hiring and promotions
• A peek inside the Google antitrust ruling and how it doesn’t actually change the game
• The ethics (and risks) of emotional AI and the lawsuits piling up
• The rise of AI agents in business, customer support, and even sales
• New hardware and AI-powered devices that are changing how we learn, listen, and live

🔗 Staying Ahead in the Age of AI (OpenAI PDF Guide) - https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/ae250928-4029-4f26-9e23-afac1fcee14c/staying-ahead-in-the-age-of-ai.pdf 

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
• YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
• Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
• Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

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Is this the beginning of the end for Photoshop, stock photography, and traditional ad shoots?

In this episode of Leveraging AI,  Isar Meitis dives headfirst into the wildly capable new Gemini 2.5 Flash image generation tool, also called “Nano Banana.” 

Here’s the twist: It's not just about creating images. It's about building scalable, repeatable, hyper-custom content pipelines that save weeks of work and thousands in budget with zero design skills required.

In this session, you'll discover:

• What exactly is Gemini 2.5 Flash (Nano Banana) and how it differs from ChatGPT or Midjourney
• How to create realistic, brand-consistent images from nothing more than a sketch and a sentence
• Why image consistency, layering, and template reusability are a game-changer for marketing teams
• How to transform product shots, team headshots, and social ad campaigns in minutes
• The “dangerously easy” way anyone can now create deepfakes and why that’s a double-edged sword
• Real-world, business-relevant use cases: from eCommerce to real estate, design, ad testing, and product mockups
• How to scale image creation with workflows using tools like Weavy and upscaling solutions
• Why this is the beginning of a major disruption in content production and how you can stay ahead
• What’s still missing: resolution limits, lack of layers, and where AI tooling must evolve next

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
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Check the self-paced AI Business Transformation course > https://multiplai.ai/self-paced-online-course/ 

Is AI about to replace your design team, your video team… and maybe your job?

This week’s episode is a masterclass in both excitement and existential dread. From Google's hilariously-named (yet wildly powerful) Nano Banana model to major shifts in enterprise AI, Isar Meitis pulls back the curtain on the biggest news, breakthroughs, and business implications in AI from the past week.

In this session, you'll discover:

• What the heck is Nano Banana and why it’s a game-changer in image/video generation
• The 3 major gaps in AI-generated visuals and how close we are to closing them
• Why AI-native startups hit $18.5B in revenue and what that means for legacy companies
• The truth behind job loss vs. job creation in the age of AI
• Morgan Stanley’s bold $920B AI forecast for the S&P 500
• Real-world enterprise AI use cases (yes, one reduced a 15-week process to 10 minutes)
• Scary security lapses in major LLMs, and the surprising players working to fix it
• Robots learning just by watching videos and what that means for your operations
• AI lawsuits, government deals, and macro-level power plays shaping the future

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
• YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
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In this live session, automation coach Anna Bui is walking us through the exact step-by-step process she used to scrape leads from LinkedIn using Appify, enrich them with data, and send them through a highly targeted outreach workflow, all while keeping it lean and cost-effective for early-stage experiments. This isn’t theory. It’s real-world, been-through-the-struggles, here’s-what-actually-worked automation.

Anna doesn’t just build tools, she builds systems that learn and adapt to your personality. You'll see how she overcame common roadblocks (and not-so-common AI frustrations) using N8N, Airtable, Clay, and Claude, plus how to personalize your entire funnel so it doesn’t sound like a robot wrote it.

Anna is a rising star in the AI and automation space - a coach at Clay Bootcamp, an ex-project manager at Speak On Podcast, and a hands-on innovator who’s turning Reddit posts, transcripts, and third-party data into fully automated content and outreach systems. She’s not just smart , she’s scrappy, fast, and endlessly creative. And in this session, she’s showing you everything.

Get Anna's workflows here: https://n8n.io/workflows/7034-convert-linkedin-post-reactions-into-qualified-leads-with-ai-and-apify/ 

Learn more about what Anna does: https://www.claybootcamp.com/

About Leveraging AI

• The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/
• YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
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