Jan 21st 2026
Intelligent Machines 854
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AI: A Brand or a Breakthrough?
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Guests:
Thomas Haigh
Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field’s biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.
- Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
- NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year
- Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
- Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
- We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
- How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus
- Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’
- Claude's new constitution
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Links
- Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
- NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year - TipRanks
- Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
- Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
- We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
- How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus
- Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’
- Claude's new constitution