Narrative Arcs

Threading scattered AI milestones into readable narrative arcs

AI Agents: From Chat to Action

The evolution of autonomous AI agents from an open-source experiment to a consumer product category

4 Chapters · 8 Events 2023-03-30 — 2026-01-25
Products & Tools Society & Culture Capability Breakthrough

AI Safety: From Tay to ASL-3

A decade of incidents from a Twitter chatbot to government export bans on frontier models

4 Chapters · 10 Events 2016-03-23 — 2026-06-12
Safety & Ethics Society & Culture Governance & Regulation

The New Programmers: How AI Changed Software Development

How AI assistants and coding agents transformed the practice of software development

4 Chapters · 8 Events 2020-06-11 — 2026-07-06
Products & Tools Capability Breakthrough Safety & Ethics

AI in Science: From Games to Nobel Prizes

Tracing AI's path from game-playing algorithms to Nobel Prize-winning scientific discoveries

4 Chapters · 8 Events 1997-05-11 — 2025-07
Capability Breakthrough Society & Culture Commerce & Industry

Open vs Closed: AI’s Two Paths

The competition between open-weight and proprietary models that divided the AI industry

5 Chapters · 18 Events 2020-06-11 — 2026-06-13
Capability Breakthrough Products & Tools Commerce & Industry

Transformer Empire: From Paper to Trillion-Dollar Industry

A single architecture reshaped computing from translation tasks to trillion-dollar markets

4 Chapters · 9 Events 2014-09-01 — 2025-08-07
Capability Breakthrough Products & Tools Society & Culture