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In September 2026, Le Monde published an investigation on how AI is reshaping learning: entire cohorts of students now delegate their thinking to AI, a behavior researchers call cognitive offloading. Philippe Meirieu warns that technology tends to endorse our natural inclination to save mental effort, while a Cambridge study cited in the article shows that AI only creates value when combined with traditional cognitive work, not when it replaces it. The parallel with PMOs is s

When Hamish Falconer, the UK's new chief Brexit negotiator under Andy Burnham's government, described his EU reset mission in The Guardian on 10 August 2026, he made a striking distinction: negotiating with the Taliban had been an adversarial exercise, but negotiating with the EU was a negotiation 'with friends, with whom we share our values'. Same negotiator, radically different operating logic. That contrast is exactly what most PMOs miss when they try to run distributed ex