Microsoft has updated its browser in the Dev Channel with a new Bing search box for error pages. The latest update also introduces multiple fixes and improvements across the browser.
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Microsoft is once again harassing Chrome users with malware-like ads and popups in an attempt to make them set Bing as their default search engine. The company has confirmed those ads are genuine.
Microsoft reached its deadline to comply with EU's DMA changes that it announced last year. As such, the company published the changes it made to Windows including the ability to uninstall stock apps.
A new report claims to have new information on how Microsoft censors content from its Bing search engine in China, including how it bans showing results for certain search terms like "human rights"
Microsoft-owned GitHub has made GitHub Copilot Enterprise generally available. It costs $39 a month per user and will provide businesses and organizations AI code creation and assistance.
OpenAI is claiming that The New York Times hacked ChatGPT to get the evidence for its lawsuit, where Microsoft and OpenAI were accused of infringing rights and copying articles from the Times.
In unsealed court documents, Google claims that Microsoft tried to sell its Bing division to Apple in 2018, but Apple reportedly felt that Microsoft was not investing in Bing as much as it could.
Apple and Microsoft have had their iMessage, Bing, Edge, and Microsoft Advertising products and services exempted from the EU's DMA rules. The two companies will surely be pleased with this outcome.
Microsoft has decided to cut back on its public flight testing of its recently announced Bing Deep Search feature. Its unexpected popularity has also revealed some caching issues for the company.
Ofcom is set to make search engines do more to protect users against self-harm content. A study it commissioned found that self-harm glorification was easily accessible from search results.
A new report claims that Microsoft's Bing search engine and Edge web browser will avoid being regulated by the European Union's Digital Markets Act due to not having enough market share.
Google has announced some of its plans to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act. One of them will be new search and browser choice screens for people who are setting up Android phones.
Microsoft's DALL-E-based AI art maker Bing Image Creator has quietly been renamed to Image Creator from Designer as the company once again moves away from the Bing branding for AI.
Deepfake porn is not an issue only for celebrities but for regular people, especially women too. A new report suggests Microsoft and Google are not doing enough to limit access to such content.
Microsoft has added support in its Bing search engine for the popular Speedtest by Ookla service, which will allow Bing users to quickly check their internet speeds by typing in the term "speedtest".
Microsoft is once again working with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to update its Santa Tracker website by using several Azure website services, including an interactive map.
Microsoft is working to extend the amount of time artwork made from its Bing Image Creator are saved online, and it may offer integration with its OneDrive cloud file service in the future.
Microsoft is test flighting a new Copilot interface on its Bing search engine called Notebook. It allows text prompts to be placed on the left and results show up on the right side.
Microsoft is currently trying to add in the more powerful GPT-4 Turbo to its Copilot (formerly Bing Chat) AI services. It may also finally increase the 5,000-character limit for the chatbot.
Microsoft's Bing team has announced a new search feature called Generative AI Captions that will summarize webpage content via GPT 4 with search results. Webmasters can opt out of these features.
Microsoft has announced a set of changes for its AI-powered chatbots. Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise are now Copilot. In addition, it unveiled Copilot Studio and Copilot for Sales.
Microsoft has announced it has launched a version of its Bing Webmaster Tools app for Android smartphones and tablets. It will allow website admins to keep track of site traffic while on the go.
Microsoft and Oracle have announced another new multi-year agreement that will let Microsoft use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power its Bing services. Financial details were not disclosed.
Microsoft has quietly started rolling out a new feature in its Bing Chat chatbot, which will allow users to import tables made in the chatbot to the Excel spreadsheet app and then edit them.
Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin took to Twitter today to ask Bing Chat users if Microsoft should concentrate on making Bing Chat faster or making DALL-E 3.0 faster for Bing Image Creator
Microsoft has revealed a new bug bounty program created specifically to award researchers who find issues in its Bing AI experiences. Submissions could get up to $15,000 for each bug.
Microsoft's new Windows head Mikhail Parakhin stated he is checking into why some Bing Image Creator users are getting content warnings over seemingly tame text prompts in the AI art maker.
Someone got around Microsoft's Bing Chat CAPTCHA security block over the weekend by framing a request to unlock the text message as a translation for a fake dead grandmother's locket.
Satya Nadella took the stand today in the DOJ's case against Google where he talked about Microsoft's plan for Bing and the company's struggles because of Google's alleged monopoly in the market.
The introduction of OpenAI's Dall-E 3 in Microsoft's Bing Image Creator has caused an uptick in its use and as such generating images is taking longer than usual so Microsoft is adding more GPUs.
Microsoft has confirmed that OpenAI's recently announced DALL-E 3 AI art generator is now available for all users of Bing Image Creator. It's also been added to Bing Chat Enterprise.
Bing AI Chat may be serving bad and malicious websites via ads to the users. A new report tested Bing Ads and found it relatively easy for someone to inject malicious ads into Bing AI Chat.
A new report claims that back in 2020, Microsoft met with Apple with a proposal to sell off its Bing search engine to the iPhone maker, but the discussions did not go beyond the exploratory stage
The GPT-4 chatbot can now get up-to-date answers to questions from the Internet via Microsoft's Bing search engine in the latest collaboration between Microsoft and ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin revealed the "No Search feature that was in testing with a small number of Bing Chat users has now turned into a plugin, and will be a part of the general plugin launch.
The new Swiftkey features include new AI camera lenses, along with a way to use Bing Image Creator to make custom stickers based on your own photos and a new Editor feature for writing.
Microsoft has officially added Bing Chat in its Microsoft Launcher app for Android. It has also officially released a way to continue chatting with the chatbot from the desktop to your smartphone.
Microsoft has announced that admins can now set up the use of Bing Chat Enterprise so that it can be used by a smaller number of users before the generative AI chatbot expands to more users
Apple and Microsoft have reached out to the European Union to defend their position in regards to iMessage and Bing respectively, to ensure they don't end up on the regulator's 'gatekeeper' list.
The latest Bing Chat dev update includes a note that users will now get better chat responses if they are asking for directions. Also, mobile users can get access to live traffic updates.