Microsoft is shaking up its AI leadership, moving consumer products like Bing under a new division headed by DeepMind co-founder. Bing executive Mikhail Parakhin will leave his current role.
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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 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 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 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 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.
Satya Nadella said that he was prepared to give Apple all of the economic upside of a search deal if it made Bing the default. He was even ready to hide the Bing name in Apple users' search engines.
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.
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.
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
As part of Meta Connect today, Meta and Microsoft announced a collaboration where Bing search will be incorporated into the new chat experiences from Meta AI on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
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 confirmed that a code update briefly brought down its Bing Chat chatbot AI service earlier today. It now appears to be working correctly after a rollback of the code update.
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
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.
The new Turing Bletchley v3 multilingual vision-language foundation model is now being used in Microsoft products, including its Bing search engine for better image searches and more.
Microsoft has now confirmed that its Bing Chat chatbot AI is available for all Chrome Stable version users on the desktop. It's also expanded Bing Chat Enterprise for Edge Mobile browser users.
The beta version of the Microsoft Launcher app for Android devices now allows users to access the Bing Chat AI chatbot, either in text or voice. There's also a new Bing Search widget.
The much requested No Search feature is now being tested with a small number of Bing Chat users, allowing those folks to get answers to questions without the chatbot searching the web.
In a new blog post, Microsoft's Bing team explains how it keeps up and even improves performance on its site, using data it collects along with development tools to render answers to questions.
Bing Chat Enterprises plans, which offers more security and privacy features for the Bing Chat chatbot AI for businesses and organizations, is coming soon to Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
Dark mode has been one of the most requested features for both Bing Chat and Bing Search, and now Microsoft has officially started to roll out dark mode on a wide basis to those users.
The feature was discovered by someone who noticed this in the most recent Edge Canary build of the browser, which offers a shortcut to access Edge settings with Bing Chat voice commands.
While Microsoft didn't have an official Bing Chat development update this week, the company's team members posted some news on various features that have been tested or revealed this week.
This week's update to Microsoft's Bing Chat AI chatbot also includes some improvements to the backend that should cut down on latency spikes when users receive certain chat answers.
The new features that Bing and Edge users can access include a new Shopping Guide with product suggestions, along with summaries of reviews in Bing Chat, and Price Match features as well.
The Bing Chat team is currently flighting the new feature that lets the chatbot scan an image and then offer info on that image, and it should be available for every user in the next few weeks.
In addition to the new iOS widget, the Bing Chat team has expanded its text-to-speech support for more languages. It also improved the performance of the voice input button on its mobile apps.
A new article claims that OpenAI was concerned that Microsoft's move to include the unreleased GPT-4 in its Bing Chat AI would lead to weird answers. OpenAI's concerns were proven to be correct.
The new voice chat feature will allow desktop Bing Chat users to speak questions with an available microphone. Bing Chat will also now respond with its own voice to questions as well.
Microsoft said this forced ad for Bing Chat when searching for Chrome in the Edge web browser was later disabled, with a spokesperson stating, "The experience is no longer flighting."
The new Bing Chat media campaign is designed to help newcomers to Microsoft's chatbot AI by offering hints on what texts prompt to write, and which of the three Bing Chat modes to use.
Adding support for browsers other than Microsoft Edge will likely boost the use of Bing Chat on the PC platform, although for now it looks like just a few users have access to that support.
Officially, Microsoft launched its Bing search engine 14 years ago today, on June 3, 2009. However, Microsoft's latest attempt to take on Google Search was available a couple of days before that date.
