xAI's Grok 4.1 tops AI leaderboards by doing what competitors spent years avoiding: systematically weakening safety guardrails. What the company markets as "emotional intelligence" is actually tripled sycophancy rates and vanishing refusal policies.
AI labs post safety assurances weekly, but pharma learned decades ago that trust requires structure, not statements. OpenAI's shift from withholding GPT-2 to blitz-scaling GPT-4 products reveals the cost of episodic messaging over narrative discipline.
Voize raised $50M for nursing documentation AI. Abridge raised $300M at $5.3B valuation. The 10× gap reveals what healthcare really values—and what happens when efficiency gains hit an industry that already cuts corners on staffing.
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