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Good morning 🌥️ Similar to the shock of seeing your crush criticize their significant other on social media, only to later find them together, Chrome bidders OpenAI and Perplexity were dismayed when the same judge who ruled that Google operated an illegal monopoly over digital search and marketing declared that Google does not have to sell Google Chrome. The slap on the wrist—which Google plans to appeal, by the way—is that Google must share search engine data with rivals.

Elsewhere, Trump signed an executive order to rebrand the U.S. Department of Defense as the Department of War, and we venture to say, this might be the most politically correct thing America has ever done.

—Gloria Mbabazi, Shem Opolot

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