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Sam Altman's World updates its app to make it a "super app" with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/world-…

World launches its 'super app,' including crypto pay and encrypted chat features | TechCrunch
Tools for Humanity, the company behind the app, is seeking to expand its "real human network."

To determine if I need to replace Discord and with what I guess the first step is to determine what are my exact needs.
What I use is:

• Video chat
• The text chat that goes with it (to post images)
• webhooks
• The "Whiteboard" activity.

Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance tech.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-…

Discord faces backlash over age verification
Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance ...

A few design decisions for a new chat platform - the sporks space
<https://sporks.space/2026/02/10/a-few-design-decisions-for-a-new-chat-platform/>
– via <

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Waitresses:
🎵 I Know What Boys Like
#TheWaitresses
https://lechatetlafille.bandcamp.com/track/the-waitresses-i-know-what-boys-like-le-chat-et-la-fille-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2SXRFmLvNjOTuL9eCYWsrx

Legacy IRC Botnet Leverages Automated SSH Exploit Pipeline to Mass-Enroll Linux Hosts
Identified through data captured by our SSH honeypots over two months, this campaign represents a sophisticated blend of eras. It merges “old-school” Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnet tactics from the late 2000s with modern, automated mass-compromise techniques.
🖥️ htt…

1000%
Also: s/Discord/Slack/g
https://infosec.exchange/@munin/115528564500273715

Perplexity „halluziniert wie ein Weltmeister“, Le Chat ist „europäisch brav“, und CapCut macht 60-Sekunden-Reels, die eher remixen als erzählen. Ich nutze KI-Tools intensiv – aber nicht als Orakel. Mein KI-Tools 2025 - ein Jahresrückblick mit Augenzwinkern. 🔗 https://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/01/07

Chat, ich bin unsicher wie ich so etwas finden soll.
Ich hatte mal ein Katapult Abo. Betonung auf hatte.
Nun finde eine Ausgabe von Katapult Sachsen im Briefkasten, die ich nicht bestellt habe.
Dabei ist eine Rechnung, die aber eigentlich keine Rechnung ist, sondern ein Abo-Angebot. Bezahlst du die Rechnung, schließt du ein Abo ab.
Puh. Ist das eine nett gemeinte Aufmerksamkeit mit merkwürdiger Umsetzung, oder Dark Pattern? Was denkt ihr?
Bei mir hinterlässt das &q…

A chat about peer review, editorial on LLM-generated review of manuscripts #LLM

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/whatsapp-rolls-out-new-group-chat-features-memb…

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags | TechCrunch
You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

Does IRC have voice and video chat now?

@… I happen to be going downtown on Thursday to work at the office, in case that works for your schedule I’d love to chat over a cup of coffee.
Otherwise I’m also happy to drop by sometime whenever it’s convenient.

This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything
Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks!
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free — including a PlayStation 5 it had been talk…

This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything
Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously p

Discord-Alternativen https://mein-mmo.de/discord-beste-alternativen/

Die 8 besten Alternativen zu Discord, wenn ihr wechseln möchtet
MeinMMO stellt euch Alternativen zu Discord vor, die sich ebenfalls als Chat- oder Kommunikationssoftware für euren Gaming-Alltag eignen.

In-Chat-Shopping: Revolution im E-Commerce?
Was bedeutet es für den E-Commerce, wenn Information, Produktsuche, Preisvergleich, Entscheidungsfindung und Kauf an einem Ort stattfinden: im KI-Chat?
https://www.

Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/856696/roblox-age-check-estimation-chat

Roblox now requires an age check if you want to chat
After a user’s age has been verified, they’ll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.

Au chat et Š la souris

Why has my Soundcore app turned into an #AI chat bot?!
#anker

Majority of the people I see recommending moving to Matrix are running on the main home server.
Which is fine, it's the easy path to get started but be aware that roots your identity in that homeserver.
My _personal_ take is that I consider public community chat to be ephemeral, which is why I've never been particularly concerned about using Discord.
Other than encouraging use of a forum for long form & persistent writing that can be discovered / linked over tim…

The reason "AI" has settled on "chat" as interface is because what they are actually selling is domination. They are selling you having a personal slave. That's their hook.

chat, we need a phrase that's like "stay woke" but for being aware of transmisogyny
something like, "the dolls know" idk

Those of you who want a more or less complete #Discord replacement have Stoat.chat waiting for you. We’ve kept #IRC warm for you all these years, though, and it’s still fundamentally better for chats.

stoat.chat ist jetzt bei Spamhaus gelistet und die Verification-Mails kommen nicht mehr an.
E-Mail ist tot!
#discord #stoat

omg... @… Delta Chat has a CLI version for macOS?? Yes please. 😍🤓
(Signal is down and heard Delta is a FOSS/Decentralized alternative?)
Thoughts about it?
#secure #chat #signal

Help test #deltachat calls
https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220

Projet libre : pourquoi privilégier un forum ?
https://www.palabritudes.net/2025/12/03/projet-libre-pourquoi-privilegier-forum.html

Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/goog

Google debuts 'Disco,' a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs | TechCrunch
Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.

I thought I was having a perfectly nice, low-key conversation with this guy about the snow on one of the dating apps, he answers my question simply, and LITERALLY the next moment without so much as a ‘by your leave’ he just f*****g deletes the chat and unmatches.

Kevin Terwilliger, #Dell head of product:
"We're very focused on delivering upon the #AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we're announcing has an #NPU in it—but what we've learned over the…

This is not about Signal being insecure but about someone inside a chat group providing information to the FBI. Hard to prevent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

My #silentsunday.. I only had a chat with two guys at the summit and one guy a bit below.
Besides that... 4-5h silence. If we don't count the minutes I was following the activities of a woodpecker a couple of meters away from me 😊
It took me really efforts to get out. But - as usual - it was worth it.

Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …

Exposed: White nationalist group responsible for hate spree across Chicagoland
Members of the Windy City Active Club include a USPS worker, a recent finance grad from DePaul, and a Polish American tied to other hate groups.

Alguien vendiendo una cama de madera de cenízaro escribió en un chat "Se vende cama King en cenizas" 🙈
#CuidadoConElAutocorrector

»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
🙄

Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

Hmmm, he want want to chat with farmers on this one.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/trump-says-he-will-put-very-severe-tariffs-on-canadian-fertilizer-if-needed/

"One thing you'll notice is the message we delivered around our products was not AI-first," #Dell head of product, Kevin Terwilliger says with a smile. "So, a bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."
#ai
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/?ref=selfh.st

In which Nick Radcliffe goes very deep for a month with Claude Code and reports back. I’m convinced by some but not all of what he says, and found the whole thing a stimulating read: https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/…

Les Vert’Libéraux vont probablement rejoindre la droite pour voter le budget de coupe en Vaud.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/en-jouant-au-chat-et-de-la-souris-les-deputes-vaudois-repoussent-encore-le-budget-2026-malgre-l-ouverture-de-negociations?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

Chat with MACRON & RUTTE – TRUMP starts SCANDAL? Ukrainian air defense SIGNIFICANTLY STRENGTHENS!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/chat-with-macron-ampamp-rutte.html

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/chatgpt-is-apples-most-downloaded…

ChatGPT is Apple's most downloaded app of 2025 in the US | TechCrunch
This is ChatGPT's first year as the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store by downloads.

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
For context - he was in a call with $VENDOR - and asked me to guess what they were trying to sell him.
Now aside from advising him to read the wonderful article at

Chat, sommes-nous cuits?

Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations https://www.404media.co/massive-ai-chat-app-leaked-millions-of-users-private-conversations/

8yo: "I just thought it would be funny if every contact on my phone started with the letter 'A'.."
8yo: "what should I call the Family Chat?" [that's our jabber chat room for the 4 of us]
13yo: "how about the Asshole Convention?"
8yo: 😂
8yo: "I love it!"
Me: "I.. don't love it. Choose something else."

This is nice, Zorks without the shitacular parser UI but natural language
https://infocom.tambo.co/zork1

Shall we do some binary analysis, chat?
I got so many voluntary target devices.

Put the tech CEOs naked on an island with just a chat-box with their respective LLMs and see if they’re still alive after a year

Sometimes you see weird things on Fedi, like this conversation between Rats (scientists)
Source:
#Neuroscience

Hmm... the human that I asked the Chat Bot to transfer me to is coming across as a Chat Bot pretending to be human 🤔

https://bsky.app/profile/stevoisiak.bsky.social/post/3mdw4a6tpv226

Stevoisiak (@stevoisiak.bsky.social)
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more https://github.com/Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist/

I am going to grab a coffee and then watch the live stream for day 1 of #swib25 which will start in a few minutes at https://forum.swib.org/t/swib25-livestream-chat/850

Macron: ”Vem röstar folk på om de frågar Chat GPT?”
Samtidigt är EU på väg att pausa delar av sin AI-lagstiftning, efter påtryckningar från USA.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/macron-vem-rostar-folk-pa-om-de-fragar-chat-gpt/

Macron varnar för att AI-bottar inte är demokratiskt ”neutrala”
Macron varnar för att AI-bottar inte är demokratiskt ”neutrala” – samtidigt som EU-kommissionen vill pausa regler för IT-bolag som vill träna sina modeller på EU-medborgares data.

The Creator's Chat
Hosted by Kashif Harrison, a South Asian queer content creator spotlighting Australia's most inspiring creative voices...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-creators-chat/

Pro Bowl Voting: Cowboys' Brandon Aubrey takes over top spot among kickers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/08/cowboys-brandon-aubrey-ceedee-lamb-pro-bowl-vote-2nd-week/…

Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822718/roblox-age-estimation-verification-chat…

Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year
After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Charles Bradley:
🎵 Changes
#CharlesBradley
https://chatdesmond.bandcamp.com/track/charles-bradley-changes-chat-desmond-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3HC6U39266ytr7fMW9M2Mz

Why does this keep happening? Grammarly recently introduced an AI chat, and also, their spell-checking service, which previously was their main product, suffers from constant reliability issues since them. I'm paying for this service, because it used to be good, I never asked for an AI chat. I can go to ChatGPT, or Google, which used to be a search engine and is now an AI chat with a worse version of the search engine attached. Not that I'd want any of that.

The group chat is dead. It’s stunning that people keep saying it’s where the action is when it’s been dead for a long time.

Did Hegseth add them to a text chat?
https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3mbkzem4iyk27

Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com)
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops

Watching a video of an ICE agent executing someone in the street, with the knowledge that they'll probably end up on the chat show circuit.

Follow #Fosdem Live https://rmendes.net/content/bookmarks/2026-01-31-follow-fosdem-live

Follow #Fosdem Live
Follow #Fosdem Live 31 January 2026 FOSDEM 🔖 https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/2026/live - You can also join the Matrix chat which has Video livestream integrated https://chat.fosdem.org/#/room/#2026-so...

To ChatGPT: Why does it take Neuralink so long to even come up with a compelling monkey video showcasing the promise of their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind? https://chatgpt.com/share/69384562-e9a4-8004-89f3-f472209351e0
ChatGPT…

ChatGPT - New chat
Shared via ChatGPT

Hey, guess what?
I just saw the first Small Web site (the Kitten Chat example¹ from Kitten²) running at a Web Number³:
https://91.98.66.193/
👉 Update: I’m shutting it down in a few moments so it might not be there when you try it :)
Come say hi (I don’t know how long I’ll keep it on for, will update this when I turn it off.)
🥳
PS. This is only in the ip-address-support branch of Kitten right now and should be considered experimental. Will likely make it in…

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Before you start your next impassioned political TED Talk in the group chat, maybe learn the difference between an anarcho-syndicalist and a Marxist-Leninist. Until then, go read a book, touch some grass, and good night.

Super émission/video de TV Monaco sur l'IA générative avec les pros de l'INRIA et de l'université Sophia Antipolis. A consommer sans modération!
https://videos.tvmonaco.com/content/ia-chat-gpt-et-les-ia-generatives

IA : CHAT-GPT ET LES IA GÉNÉRATIVES

Pete Hegseth endangered troops by sharing war plans in Signal chat, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-war-plans-signal-b2877489.html

I am not going to sit here and lie to you that I wrote this bash script all by myself. Yeah, I had it already (mostly), but got bored of reading man pages and borrowing from other people's scripts on the Internet and instead had THE best chat with Gemini ever, in which we both learned from our mistakes 😁
PS The sick CachyOS logo was entirely Gemini's idea. Good job AI buddy 😎

Ich habe mal eine 39C3-Deltachat-Gruppe gebastelt. Ist nur zum Spielen.
https://i.delta.chat/#1CEF3DC15C559AD8F4CA28FDF2CFBB7130E02CBB&…

Me estoy arrepintiendo de un artículo que escribí hace no mucho sobre delta chat en un sentido algo negativo. La verdad es que, cuando lo pruebas un poco, tiene una ventajas clarísimas de cara a los usuarios sin conocimiento técnico.

https://github.com/matterbridge-org/matterbridge/blob/master/.golangci.yaml
The new matterbridge fork has a lint configuration that hides lint errors in old code.
Senior

SF protest against the bombings in Venezuela, via a group chat. 1pm at Market and Powell

Friends don't let friends chat insecurely!

So, with the Discord thing rn I guess teh closest we have to an alternative is like Zulip? Except it's more self-hosted focused.
So, is anyone around here hosting a Zulip (or other real, feature-complete, discord alternative that I don't know yet) instance open to (or even better, focused on) small-ish kink communities?
I have some friends on discord that I really wanted to migrate somewhere else.
I thought about hosting one in my NAS, but even if cgnat wasn't a thing actively moderating porn-focused places seems like a nightmare so I'd want something hosted by someone with a bit more experience on that such as moderating fedi servers or something. I guess some people who host fedi instances probably also host chat rooms right?

chat, have you ever used a SOIC clip and not regretted it?

Reminder, this #dotnet #livestream is happening today. Come by the chat now if you just want to say hello. 👋
https://www.

Peu après 17 heures, Š la fin du premier débat sur le budget de fonctionnement du DSAS, la séance a été suspendue pour permettre aux chefs de groupe de se réunir afin de chercher des compromis. L’ensemble des conseillers d’Etat – Š l’exception de Valérie Dittli qui n’a pas de parlementaires centristes – se sont mêlés Š ces discussions censées rester confidentielles. https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/en-jouant-au-chat-et-de-la-souris-les-deputes-vaudois-repoussent-encore-le-budget-2026-malgre-l-ouverture-de-negociations?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

A NotebookLM user myself, good description why it is such a good tool.
I tried replacing ChatGPT with NotebookLM — and it changed how I research https://www.xda-developers.com/replacing-chatgpt-with-notebooklm-changed-how-i-research/

I tried replacing ChatGPT with NotebookLM — and it changed how I research
I stopped treating research like a chat

So findest du heraus, was ChatGPT alles über dich weiß : Dafür kannst du im Chat einfach Fragen wie „Was weißt du über mich?“ oder „Wie heiße ich und wo arbeite ich?“ eingeben. #BasicThinking
Ruhig mal ausprobieren. Auch in den anderen #KI

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/114281827524911139
It's happening again. 60 calls today, with some assholes calling literally 10 times in the space of 2-3 minutes.
Like, Juan, my man, learn how to use a goddamned phone in 2026. …

“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.” Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Legal experts say th…

Sources: Discord has filed confidentially for an IPO, working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/chat-platform-discord-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo

The WHO Group Chat
Your weekly pop culture catch-up, mixed by WHO, stirred by you, straight from Australia's biggest celebrity newsroom...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-who-group-chat/

Internal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an updated Chat model" this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman-touts-cha…

Sam Altman touts ChatGPT's reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT's monthly growth is back above 10%, as competition ramps up in generative AI.

1800 ChatLine
Your go-to hotline for Married at First Sight Australia recaps, dating chaos, and unfiltered relationship talk. Hosted by Amz Dicko and Jayde...
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Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and others; Shopify merchants are automatically enrolled (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launches-copilot…

Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents
These new agentic experiences were showcased at the NRF 2026 conference.

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-v…

ChatGPT just made voice mode even more capable - 9to5Mac
ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow. The latest update to ChatGPT now combines...

Play It Forward, A Wearthy Podcast
Lukas Ritson interviews leading early education experts and play advocates to chat about how the next generation is being formed by play (and a lack of play)...
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Character.AI launches Stories, which lets users create interactive fiction and is the company's "first new format created specifically" for users under 18 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/char

Character AI will offer interactive 'Stories' to kids instead of open-ended chat | TechCrunch
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.

X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is

X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
X has finally revealed its long-promised chat platform, which replaces the service's basic DM functionality with features more like the messaging...

Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822718/roblox-age-estimation-verification-chat…

Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year
After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.

Amazon launches Alexa in early access for all users via a new web interface at Alexa.com and now lets users upload documents, emails, and images (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/853535/alexa-plus-website-now-available

The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone in early access
The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone who wants to chat with Amazon’s new AI assistant.

Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/867673/claude-mcp-app-interactive-slack-figm…

MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva
Anthropic says users can interact directly with apps like Box, Clay, Amplitude, Asana, and monday.com without leaving Claude chat thanks to an MCP extension.

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com…

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but sever…

Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/chatgpt…

ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps increased 28% year-over-year, says report | TechCrunch
ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps were up on Black Friday year-over-year, with Walmart and Amazon benefitting the most.

Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?

OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/chatgpt-launches-a-year-end-review…

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped | TechCrunch
The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.