Microsoft Fined EUR 60 Million by French Privacy Watchdog Over Advertising Cookies on Bing Website

France’s privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft EUR 60 million ($64 million, roughly Rs. 530 crore) for foisting advertising cookies on users. In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL) said Microsoft‘s search engine Bing had not set up a system allowing users … Read more

Microsoft, OpenAI Aim for ChatGPT AI-Backed Bing Version to Compete With Google: Report

Microsoft is reportedly getting ready to launch a version of its search engine Bing that will leverage the AI behind ChatGPT, a chatbot created by OpenAI. Microsoft provided $1 billion in funding to the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup OpenAI in 2019. In order to build artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing … Read more

Microsoft Reportedly Working on Adding Improved ChatGPT Version Based on GPT-4 to Bing to Compete With Google

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s natural language processing (NLP) based chatbot, has taken the internet by storm ever since it was made available for public testing in November last year. The generative AI model is expected to take a massive leap with the introduction of GPT-4, which will succeed the currently utilised GPT-3 autoregressive language model. The update … Read more

Microsoft Announces ChatGPT-Like AI Technology for Search Engine Bing, Edge Browser

Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence. The revamping of Microsoft’s second-place search engine could give the software giant a head start against other tech companies in capitalising on the worldwide excitement surrounding … Read more

Bard, Bing and Baidu: How Big Tech’s AI Race Will Transform Search – and All of Computing

Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice. After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally … Read more

Hands on With Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Bing: From Poems to Diet Advice, Here’s What the Chatbot Told Us

Microsoft is currently working on a massive update to its Bing search engine, which will provide rich and responsive text results. It is based on the powerful Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology, which is also used by popular chatbot ChatGPT, developed by San Francisco AI startup OpenAI. An updated version of Bing, which has so … Read more

Microsoft Looks to Tame Revamped AI-Powered Bing as Users Report Being Disparaged by Chatbot

Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet. But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler. The tech company said this week it is promising … Read more

Microsoft Says Revamped Bing is ‘Work in Progress’ After Report Claims Mistakes in Chatbot’s Responses

Just over a week after Microsoft unveiled its new Bing search engine powered by the technology behind the ChatGPT artificial-intelligence chatbot, The Wall Street Journal reported that early testers were calling out mistakes and disturbing responses generated by the technology. Microsoft said that the search engine is still a work in progress, describing the past … Read more

Microsoft’s Bing Plans AI Ads, Testing Them in Early Version of Chatbot

Microsoft has started discussing with ad agencies how it plans to make money from its revamped Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence as the tech company seeks to battle Google’s dominance. In a meeting with a major ad agency this week, Microsoft showed off a demo of the new Bing and said it … Read more

Microsoft Limits Revamped Bing Chatbot to 5 Questions per Session, Says Long Sessions Confuse Chat Model

Microsoft said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to five questions per session and 50 questions per day. “As we mentioned recently, very long chat sessions can confuse the underlying chat model in the new Bing. To address these issues, we have … Read more