Sycophancy at 9%, Grok's Cheaper Curve, and Half-Trillion Dollar Mark-to-Market
Anthropic publishes the prevalence of sycophancy in Claude — 9% of guidance conversations, concentrated in relationships and spirituality — and reports halving it in Opus 4.7, then halving it again in Mythos Preview. xAI ships Grok 4.3 cheaper and smarter than Grok 4.20, with one quiet hallucination tradeoff. Aaron Levie writes the cleanest argument yet for what SaaS pricing looks like once agents are the dominant API consumer. Plus: Codex CLI lands a /goal primitive, Claude Security goes public beta, Epoch puts the chip-smuggling number at 660k, and Alphabet and Amazon book half their AI…
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