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I'm Ameron Shake and your Daily Crunch for Wednesday featuring three big tech headlines starts right now.

We've all heard stats on US app installed, but how about the uninstalled?

Yeah, this Saturday, February 28th, chat GPT's mobile app jumped 295% in uninstalled day over day,

as consumers responded to the news of OpenAI's deal with the Department of Defense,

which has gotten a snazzy little rebrand under the Trump administration as the Department of War.

This data, which comes from market intelligence provider censor tower, thanks friends over there

at censor tower, represents a sizable increase compared with chat GPT's typically day-over-day

uninstall rate of just a measly 9%, not even double digits, as measured over the past 30 days.

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