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Microsoft revealed this week that Apple used Bing as a ‘bargaining chip’ with Google search, but it reportedly considered buying it and bringing search in-house

Microsoft held preliminary talks about selling Bing to the iPhone maker, which would have made Bing the default search on its devices instead of Google, Bloomberg reports.

Fortune

Microsoft’s AI Push: Collaborations And Bing Transformation

Microsoft partners with Cloudflare, Meta, and Amadeus to advance AI capabilities and launch an AI-powered Bing chatbot.

Zenger

Bing Chat and ChatGPT-4 Reject Queries That Mention Kike Hernandez

Thanks to Jacob Mchangama, I learned that Bing Chat and ChatGPT-4 (which use the same underlying software) refuse to answer queries that contain the words "nigger," "faggot," "kike," and likely others as well. This leads to the refusal to talk about Kike Hernandez (might he have been secretly born in…

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Google Search Celebrates 25 Years Since Launch, Remains Dominant Player

Alphabet's search engine continues to lead the market with 91.8% share, despite competition from Microsoft's Bing.

Zenger

What is Windows Copilot AI — and why has Microsoft bungled the launch?

Microsoft’s new AI assistant arrives in Windows 11 — but it falls short of the initial hype

Evening Standard

Maybe Google Is Popular Because It's Good?

The Department of Justice undervalues consumer preference in its latest antitrust efforts.

Reason

Microsoft’s New Copilot App Isn't Just a Feature, It's Now the Whole Point of Windows 11

Microsoft is making generative AI an inescapable aspect of using Windows 11 with its new Copilot app that integrates a ChatGPT-powered chatbot.

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Google's dominance of internet search faces major challenge in legal showdown with U.S. regulators

The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine

The Independent UK

Australia to require Google, Bing to clamp down on AI-created child porn

Online safety code requires search engines to take ‘appropriate steps’ to prevent spread of child abuse material.

Al Jazeera

Microsoft defends 'malware-like' pop ups pushing Bing on Windows 11, calling them 'unintended behavior'

Windows 11 is showing a prompt to some users urging them to use Bing. The notification is caused by an executable file and has drawn criticism from many.

Windows Central

Bing AI is officially coming to Chrome, taking on Google Bard on its own turf

Microsoft is opening up Bing AI for use in Chrome giving users more choices in browser preference while being able to access the AI chatbot.

TechRadar

Bing-related backlash: Microsoft pulls advertising after complaints

Users of non-Microsoft products met with targeted ads begging them to switch, and it seems Microsoft has heard their pleas to be uninterrupted (for now).

TechRadar

Microsoft confirms Bing Chat is here for Chrome

Microsoft officially announced the availability of Bing Chat in Chrome via its weekly release notes highlighting the changes implemented in Bing Chat.

Windows Central

Bing Chat AI is FINALLY coming to the Microsoft Launcher and Surface Duo

Microsoft has added Bing Chat AI integration into the Launcher's search bar, giving users the chance to jump into a Bing Chat session without first needing to download the Bing app.

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Bing market share is stagnant despite multi-billion-dollar investment by Microsoft

According to new data from Statcounter, Bing's global search engine share stood at 2.99% last month, a slight deviation from January's 3.03%. Putting all these into account, Bing's market share has been pretty much stayed the same for the better part of this year.

TechRadar

Microsoft could be planning to infuse Windows 11 with AI in every corner

Windows 11 might be getting a lot more AI than Copilot in the future…

Laptop

3 times AI has given us a sentience scare as Snapchat’s chat bot goes rogue

Artificial intelligence, mankind’s latest Icarus moment, is the hot new thing taking the world by storm. But it could be about to take the world by force, too.

TechRadar

Is Bing AI helping in the fight against Google? Apparently not – and Microsoft’s in denial

Multiple sets of stats appear to agree that Bing AI is not helping to push search traffic for Microsoft.

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What if OpenAI trained ChatGPT with illegal data scraping? The New York Times is reportedly considering suing to put that to the test

The paper of record suspects OpenAI scraped its data without permission, and it just left a group that was negotiating a royalty agreement.

TechRadar

Bing Chat is acting like a sulky teenager, refusing to do its homework and throwing tantrums - what gives?

Bing Chat is displaying some interesting behavior - taking comical turns and offering strange excuses for dodging the most normal queries.

TechRadar

Following Bing AI, Google could bring AI writing tools to Chromebooks

Discoveries made in Chromium code that suggest Google’s gearing up to launch an AI-powered rewriting tool.

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I lived with AI in my browser for two weeks — here’s what happened

AI sidebars on browsers like Edge and Opera give you more context, summarize articles, and even auto-generate emails and social media posts. But how helpful are they really?

Reason

Journal of Free Speech Law: My "Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Output"

Just published, in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.

TechRadar

Windows 11 no longer has Cortana as Microsoft pulls the plug on digital assistant

After saying that Cortana would be scrapped in August, Microsoft is now following through on that promise.

I tried to get ChatGPT to select my Fantasy Football team, this is what I found out

Fantasy Football is serious business, but can an AI solve my selection woes for this Premier League season?

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