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Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 24, 2026

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice…

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Anthropic details the “helper axis,” a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The PM’s Non-Technical Guide to Building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta) Interviews with world-class product…

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U.S. judge rules that Google must renegotiate every year any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 5, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI Device Wars heats up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix acquires Warner Brothers The Big Technology Podcast…

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OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always revert to the original separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 25, 2025

Zac Room / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always…

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U.S. BNPL usage has grown to 91.5 million users, 25% of whom finance groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans go unreported, creating ‘phantom debt’ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots and why the world’s models are next | Dr.…

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Microsoft unveils Mico, a character that responds with real-time expressions when spoken to, now enabled by default in Copilot voice mode in the US, UK and Canada (Tom Warren/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix) Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth…

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In April, Chatgpt started by default, by default, all the cats spent for more personalized answers, but this means that users lose control of the context of their prompts (Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 21, 2025

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's blog:: In April, Chatgpt began, by default, to reference to all past cats for more…

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Meta Meta Meta Ray-Ban Privacy Policy for Meta Smart glasses on April 29 to activate the hey meta voice command by default, store vocal recordings for a year, and more (Chris Welch / The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2025

Chris Welch / The penis:: Meta has updated the Privacy Policy of Ray-Ban Meta Meta Smart Lunes on April 29…

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US c. Google: A perplexity leader claims that Google’s contract with Motorola blocked the perplexity of being the default AI assistant on new Motorola (Leah Nylen / Bloomberg) devices)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 23, 2025

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:: US c. Google: a perplexity manager indicates that Google’s contract with Motorola blocked the perplexity of…

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Threads deploy new features: possibility of defining the following flow or any personalized flow as by default, limit post responses to subscribers, better video player (Tom Warren / The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 20, 2025

Tom Warren / The penis:: Threads deploy new features: possibility of defining the following flow or any personalized flow as…

North Korean hackers offer $70,000 per month to act as front – Radio Free Asia

Iran war could revive cooperation between Beijing and Manila in the South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Vietnam protests China’s development of controversial reef in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Potential and limits – The diplomat

After 29 years, RFA is on hiatus – Radio Free Asia

McCormick buys Unilever’s food business

JetBlue Airways Raises Checked Baggage Fees as Fuel Prices Soar

Chinese suppliers warn of rising prices in the United States due to Hormuz closure

NFL asks prediction markets to refrain from ‘objectionable bets’

Pokémon Card Value Rises Amid Logan Paul Pikachu Auction

Karoline Leavitt just prepared to face war crimes charges

America rejects Trump as his approval rating hits new low

Trump arrested for lying about Iran war negotiations

No Kings 3 was the largest one-day protest against a president in US history

Bernie Sanders destroys Trump’s lies about the Iran war

Google says all users in the United States can now change their Google account username; users are limited to one username change every 12 months (Kris Holt/Engadget)

South Korean memory chipmakers have sufficient helium stocks until at least June, and a South Korean minister has ruled out any supply disruptions in the first half of 2026 (Reuters)

Supply chain attack compromises Axios HTTP client with 100 million weekly npm downloads, introducing malicious dependency and deploying multi-stage payload (Socket)

Official data shows that Indian smartphone exports reached $11 billion in the first half of fiscal 2026, up 55% year-on-year; analysts warn Iran war could trigger 22-25% decline in coming weeks (Quratulain Rehbar/Nikkei Asia)

AI coding agents will radically change both the practice and economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities (Thomas H. Ptacek/sockpuppet.org)

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Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

Anthropic details the “helper axis,” a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)

U.S. judge rules that Google must renegotiate every year any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)

OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always revert to the original separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

U.S. BNPL usage has grown to 91.5 million users, 25% of whom finance groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans go unreported, creating ‘phantom debt’ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Microsoft unveils Mico, a character that responds with real-time expressions when spoken to, now enabled by default in Copilot voice mode in the US, UK and Canada (Tom Warren/The Verge)

In April, Chatgpt started by default, by default, all the cats spent for more personalized answers, but this means that users lose control of the context of their prompts (Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog)

Meta Meta Meta Ray-Ban Privacy Policy for Meta Smart glasses on April 29 to activate the hey meta voice command by default, store vocal recordings for a year, and more (Chris Welch / The Verge)

US c. Google: A perplexity leader claims that Google’s contract with Motorola blocked the perplexity of being the default AI assistant on new Motorola (Leah Nylen / Bloomberg) devices)

Threads deploy new features: possibility of defining the following flow or any personalized flow as by default, limit post responses to subscribers, better video player (Tom Warren / The Verge)