<p>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.</p><ul> <li>Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI</li> <li>NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year</li> <li>Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs</li> <li>Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files</li> <li>We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon</li> <li>How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus</li> <li>Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status'</li> <li>Claude's new constitution</li></ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://tomandmaria.com/Tom/" target="_blank">Thomas Haigh</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to <em>Intelligent Machines</em> at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines">https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines</a>.</p> <p><strong>Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!</strong><br /> Support what you love and get ad-free audio <em>and</em> video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://bitwarden.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">bitwarden.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="https://monarch.com" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">monarch.com with code IM</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2026-01-21 18:52:27