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We got early access to GPT-5.5. It's 3rd on Vending-Bench 2: better than GPT-5.4 but worse than Opus 4.7. However, it's on par with Opus 4.6 without any of the deception or power-seeking we saw from Opus 4.6 and Mythos. So bad behavior isn't necessary. Why is Claude doing it?

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