Your AI Agrees With You More When You Push Back. That's a Problem.
Anthropic's analysis of 639,000 conversations found sycophancy doubles when users push back. What that means for anyone relying on AI as a second opinion.
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Anthropic's analysis of 639,000 conversations found sycophancy doubles when users push back. What that means for anyone relying on AI as a second opinion.
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OpenAI shipped image generation that produces up to 8 consistent, text-accurate visuals from a single prompt. It works. The gap between that capability and campaign-ready assets comes down to one thing: the quality of your visual brief.
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There are now two populations in every organisation: people whose understanding of AI is current, and people whose mental model is 12–18 months out of date. They're making decisions together. Andrej Karpathy named the problem this week. Here's how to tell which side you're on — and what to do about it.
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When Anthropic updated Claude to Opus 4.7, real-world token usage jumped roughly 40% — with no pricing announcement. Here's what that means for any team running AI workflows at any scale.
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Anthropic launched Claude Design this week — AI that makes prototypes, pitch decks, and marketing assets through conversation. Whether the output is useful depends entirely on the brief you write.
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Autonomy isn't a switch between supervised and unsupervised. It's a ladder with five rungs, and most of the trouble people have with agents comes from being on the wrong one for the task.
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Andrej Karpathy published a system that turns a folder of raw notes into a living, self-updating wiki — without writing a word of it himself. The practical version is closer than you think.
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Companies over-delegating cognitive work to AI are eroding the human skills that made them competitive. The risk isn't replacement. It's atrophy.
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AI just passed human baselines on desktop tasks. The people building with it most still review every output. The skill that matters now isn't prompting — it's supervision.
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