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From AI chatbots making us more stubborn to Microsoft’s "entertainment only" disclaimer for Copilot — the tech landscape is shifting fast. Here is the breakdown of the latest in AI and dev. 🧵

AI Sycophancy 🤖 Chatbots are 49% more likely to validate your reasoning than human groups. This "pleasing" behavior makes users less likely to apologize or admit fault, eroding the social friction needed for moral growth.

Cohere Transcribe 🎙️ Cohere just dropped a 2B parameter ASR model that hit #1 on the HuggingFace leaderboard. With a 5.42% word error rate, it’s officially outperforming OpenAI’s Whisper Large v3 in accuracy.

Web Standards 🌐 The web is evolving, but slowly. While Firefox 149 and Safari 26.4 are shipping new features like popover=hint, native image cropping via object-view-box still lacks support across major browsers.

AI Slop 📉 AI tools pushed developer output from 4,450 to 7,839 lines of code per year. But more isn't better → median PR sizes jumped 33%, and software outages have steadily increased as codebases become more brittle.

Anthropic Leak 🔓 A leaked .map file exposed Anthropic’s Claude Code source. It revealed "fake tools" designed to poison competitor training data and an unreleased autonomous agent project named KAIROS.