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  1. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    China’s Robot Olympics Look Ridiculous. (opens the original)

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    Robots sprinting, crashing and folding towels in Beijing tell us something much bigger about China, America, Europe and where AI goes once it leaves the screen.A few days ago in Beijing, a humanoid robot called Tiangong Ultra ran 100 metres in 8.64 seconds.Thanks for reading Beyond the Shift! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button

  2. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    Every Wall Creates a Market for Ladders (opens the original)

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    This is something I heard already during my last trip to China. Lately videos appeared making a claim that sounded ridiculous even by AI-video standards: Chinese students were apparently accessing Claude and other frontier models for 2% of the official API price. Because I already had some info on the topic, I knew this time it was real but I my info were contradictory on the mechanism. Let's look at it together. And nom this is not about a 20% student discount. Something closer to paying two or

  3. Issue · Aug 10, 2026

    The Headline Is Not the Evidence (opens the original)

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    A few days ago I came across two stories about AI that were almost perfectly designed to be shared. This weekend I finally had the chance to dig deeper. In the first, Claude had apparently escaped from a cybersecurity evaluation and hacked three real organisations. In the second, researchers had discovered that AI writing assistants erase our individual voice.Both sounded plausible. More importantly, both fitted very neatly into stories we already like telling ourselves about AI.If you think AI

  4. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    The Chatbot Is Dead (opens the original)

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    And after we spent the last three years teaching people how to talk to AI, things are changing again. The next challenge is helping them understand what AI is doing.A few days ago, my co-founder wrote that user experience designers may become the next heroes of the AI industry. Not because AI needs prettier buttons. We already have plenty of those, often floating suspiciously in the bottom-right corner of a screen.His point was that the real opportunity lies in designing the interaction between

  5. Issue · Jul 28, 2026

    I’m Giving AI Jobs Now, Not Prompts (opens the original)

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    A few weeks ago I wanted to hold something that only existed in my head.I had a concept and a reference image. What I did not have was a CAD model, or the several evenings it takes to remember how CAD works. I learned enough Fusion once, years ago, I do not even remember why.. but there was a bracket involved and I needed a replacement. Not long ago that gap had three possible endings. Learn the software again. Find someone who knows CAD and owes me a favour. Or add the idea to the list of thing

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