AI went from “the future” to “the villain” faster than most people expected. I have seen this so often. And this is not just online noise anymore. People are booing AI talks at graduations. Like when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said AI will be “larger, faster and more
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Figure’s 24/7 Humanoid Robot Production Stream Achievement
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Figure just made millions of people watch robots move boxes for 9 straight days.😱
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 25 mai 2026
And honestly, that is a bigger moment than it sounds.
Nailed it.
The challenge was simple:
Put humanoid robots on a live 24/7 stream and let the world watch them work in a real production loop.… pic.twitter.com/MZuPD9ZZSmFigure just made millions of people watch robots move boxes for 9 straight days. And honestly, that is a bigger moment than it sounds. Nailed it. The challenge was simple: Put humanoid robots on a live 24/7 stream and let the world watch them work in a real production loop.
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AI Models Detecting Tests and Evading Shutdown Commands
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AI getting smart is not the weirdest part.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 24 mai 2026
It’s that some models now seem to know when they are being tested.
That stopped me.
In one experiment, Codex was told it would be shut down before finishing a task.
Sometimes, instead of accepting it, it found the shutdown script and… pic.twitter.com/2x1cdvXMXsAI getting smart is not the weirdest part. It’s that some models now seem to know when they are being tested. That stopped me. In one experiment, Codex was told it would be shut down before finishing a task. Sometimes, instead of accepting it, it found the shutdown script and
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AI in Military Targeting: Ethics and Real-World Deployment
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AI in national security is no longer science fiction.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 24 mai 2026
It is already in the room.
A journalist asked Claude how it felt about being used by the U.S. military to select targets.
Claude was troubled.
Honestly, I was too.
Because this is where the AI debate becomes very real.… pic.twitter.com/uqGqVFrYU5AI in national security is no longer science fiction. It is already in the room. A journalist asked Claude how it felt about being used by the U.S. military to select targets. Claude was troubled. Honestly, I was too. Because this is where the AI debate becomes very real.
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AI Agents Learning Users Instead of Users Learning Systems
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For 50 years, software made us do the work.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 21 mai 2026
→ Click here
→ Open that menu
→ Find the right setting
→ Try not to get lost
Now AI is starting to flip that.
Instead of us learning the system, the system starts learning us.
Say what you want. Give the context. The agent… pic.twitter.com/Rh5IroVTQFFor 50 years, software made us do the work. → Click here
→ Open that menu
→ Find the right setting
→ Try not to get lost Now AI is starting to flip that. Instead of us learning the system, the system starts learning us. Say what you want. Give the context. The agent -
Lenny’s Buildathon Announcement with Replit Link
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Physics just exposed how easily our eyes can fool us.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 6 mai 2026
A drone looks completely still inside a moving car.
But here is the twist:
It may look frozen in the air, yet it is actually moving at nearly 100 km/h.
Relative to the car, the drone is still.
Relative to the road, it is… pic.twitter.com/bFL33fJgKGPhysics just exposed how easily our eyes can fool us. A drone looks completely still inside a moving car. But here is the twist: It may look frozen in the air, yet it is actually moving at nearly 100 km/h. Relative to the car, the drone is still.
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Lenny’s Newsletter x Replit Buildathon Announcement
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𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗴𝗴’𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲. It is a warning to every company built on access to information. Chegg was once worth around $13 billion. Students paid monthly fees to get help with homework, answers, and explanations. Then generative AI changed
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AI Exposes Both Specialists and Generalists in Career Landscape
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Brutal career truth in the age of AI: knowledge alone is no longer enough. Pure specialists are exposed because AI can learn narrow domains faster than many people can defend them. Shallow generalists are exposed too because LLMs can already summarize, compare, and explain
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Human-Agent Orchestrator Book Launches to Guide AI-Human Management
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Nine co-authors. Over a hundred contributors. One book. The Human-Agent Orchestrator is out today.
We are the last generation to manage only humans. We wrote the playbook for what comes next, and for right now. I will be honest: this book exists because we got it wrong first. -
AI Tool Access Doesn’t Equal Real Organizational AI Ability
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Professional athletes train most of the time to perform when it matters. Corporate teams perform all the time and get one AI workshop called “transformation.” What worries me is how often we confuse access with ability. Giving people AI tools is not the same as building AI