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      <title>Trustworthy AI: Connecting the Dots</title>
      <description>An audio summary of Díaz-Rodríguez et al. (2023), mapping how AI principles, ethics, the EU's seven trustworthy-AI requirements, engineering practice, and the risk-based AI Act connect into a single chain. Generated for AIL 8101.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>An audio summary of Díaz-Rodríguez et al. (2023), mapping how AI principles, ethics, the EU's seven trustworthy-AI requirements, engineering practice, and the risk-based AI Act connect into a single chain. Generated for AIL 8101.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>How Computers Talk: NLP (Taulli Ch. 6)</title>
      <description>Audio summary of Taulli's NLP chapter: the Tay disaster, why language is hard, voice recognition history, GPT-2 as the hinge to the generative era, and chatbot deployment lessons that became 2026 practice. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of Taulli's NLP chapter: the Tay disaster, why language is hard, voice recognition history, GPT-2 as the hinge to the generative era, and chatbot deployment lessons that became 2026 practice. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Scaling AI Infrastructure at Continental (IBM Case Study)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of the IBM–Continental ADAS case: 100 TB/day of test-fleet data, storage as the real bottleneck, 14× more experiments per month, and the durable infrastructure lessons for 2026. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Employing AI in Business (Akerkar Ch. 6)</title>
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      <title>NLP for Business (Akerkar Ch. 5)</title>
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      <title>AI Infrastructure Explained (Red Hat)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of Red Hat's AI infrastructure explainer: the three-layer stack, component checklist, vLLM and inference optimization, and four measurable inference criteria for the Week 6 decision matrix. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The NIST Risk Management Framework</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of the NIST RMF: the seven-step process, SP 800-53 control families as a criteria bank for the Week 6 decision matrix, and how the RMF relates to the AI RMF and the new AI control overlays. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>What Is AI Infrastructure? (IBM)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of IBM's AI infrastructure overview: the hybrid deployment pattern, full hardware/software inventory, AIaaS, six benefits, and the six-step build sequence used in the Week 6 lecture. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Building Your AI Stack (Future Processing)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of Future Processing's AI-stack guide: five component families (compute, networking, data, security, MLOps), cloud economics, and a challenge list that doubles as due-diligence criteria. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Applica and Intelligent Document Processing (AWS Case Study)</title>
      <description>Audio summary of the Applica case: deep-learning document understanding, the TILT multimodal model, the Snowflake acquisition, and how intelligent document processing looks in 2026. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of the Applica case: deep-learning document understanding, the TILT multimodal model, the Snowflake acquisition, and how intelligent document processing looks in 2026. Generated for AIL 8101 Week 6.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Week 5 Lecture: Responsible and Explainable AI</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:45:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Week 6 Lecture: Scaling Infrastructure for AI Applications and Pricing</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:55:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Future of AI: Pros and Cons (Taulli Ch. 9)</title>
      <description>Audio summary of Taulli's closing chapter for AIL 8101 Week 7: AI's likely futures — automation and jobs, autonomous vehicles, the US-China race, weaponization, drug discovery, and regulation — with a 2026 check on which 2019 predictions aged well.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:38:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of Taulli's closing chapter for AIL 8101 Week 7: AI's likely futures — automation and jobs, autonomous vehicles, the US-China race, weaponization, drug discovery, and regulation — with a 2026 check on which 2019 predictions aged well.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Implementing AI: Moving the Needle (Taulli Ch. 8)</title>
      <description>Audio summary of Taulli's AI-implementation chapter for AIL 8101 Week 7: how organizations actually put AI to work — data and IT prerequisites, ROI and build-vs-buy, team composition, adoption and change management, and the failure modes that sink projects, with notes on what holds in 2026.</description>
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      <description>Audio summary of Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF) for AIL 8101 Week 7: a security lens on AI — the AI-specific threats (model theft, data poisoning, prompt injection, data extraction), SAIF's six core elements, and how it ties into NIST and ISO governance frameworks.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:38:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Audio summary of Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF) for AIL 8101 Week 7: a security lens on AI — the AI-specific threats (model theft, data poisoning, prompt injection, data extraction), SAIF's six core elements, and how it ties into NIST and ISO governance frameworks.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Week 7 Lecture: AI Infrastructure Security Setup and Monitoring</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:07:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Summary of: AIL 8101 — Week 7 Lecture: AI Infrastructure Security Setup and Monitoring. Generated for AIL 8101.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:07:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Summary of: AIL 8101 — Accelerating AI Data Center Security (IAPS Report). Generated for AIL 8101.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:07:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Summary of: AIL 8101 — Jensen Huang on the AI Revolution, Job Losses and What Drives Him (CNA Interview). Generated for AIL 8101.</itunes:summary>
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