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

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Thomas Haigh

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