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...Brussels is still deliberating over the inclusion of iMessage and Bing in the final list....
...Microsoft has said Bing should not be subject to the same obligations as its larger competitor, Google Search....
...The model has already been integrated into Microsoft’s Bing search engine and productivity software, and Google has raced to catch up by launching its own AI products such as the chatbot Bard....
...He said the group was still top three in search [but] “too small at this point” to compete against Google and Microsoft’s Bing. “Hopefully, we can earn our way back there,” added Lanzone....
...These would be similar to GPT-4, which powers part of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and LamDA, Google’s model that powers its Bard chatbot....
...As an early example, if you are impressed by the new versions of the Bing search engine, you might imagine how AI could enhance other apps you use....
...Even Microsoft Bing’s new AI features have not managed to change the leaderboard. Swapping Google for Bing or DuckDuckGo would be unpopular....
...And there’s a bigger mystery: why does Microsoft continue to make Bing the default on desktops and laptops when everybody switches away?...
...CA: Let’s say that you’re using Bing Chat [Microsoft’s AI assistant, powered by OpenAI’s GPT model]....
...At its Connect developer conference on Wednesday, Meta unveiled an AI assistant that will be able to search for answers to users’ questions through a partnership with Microsoft’s Bing, as well as AI image...
...Luk Bing-lam, chair of the Hong Kong Nuclear Society, a forum for people working on nuclear science and technology, said the supportive IAEA review relied heavily on data from Tepco....
...Microsoft is incorporating GPT-4 into Bing and other products, while US corporations are testing the technology in their workplaces and products....
...It came the day after Microsoft unveiled a new version of its Bing search engine that incorporated AI advances including summarising answers to search queries and generating emails and lists....
...Advertising brings in more than $10bn in revenue annually for Microsoft, making it the fourth-biggest digital advertising player, with most of its sales coming from the Bing search engine and jobs postings...
...Whereas the Reclina Rocker had pipe-smoking crooner Bing Crosby as its representative, the actress Kristen Bell is the current face of the brand....
...gaming audience, which already dwarfs other forms of mass-market entertainment, is playing to the strengths of companies that can build and manage giant online businesses to spread their costs, according to Bing...
...Microsoft’s Bing, one of the services most affected by the alleged wrongdoing, figures prominently in the DoJ complaint, with 13 mentions....
...Today, it remains close to its all-time highs of more than 92 per cent, according to Statcounter, which tracks web activity, followed by Bing on 2.9 per cent and Yahoo at 1.5 per cent....
...Most of Google’s smaller rivals license their index from Microsoft’s Bing, including DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused company that Apple already offers as an alternative to Google in its Safari browser, and...
...The case quotes one Google executive allegedly saying the company was “paying revenue share *in return for* exclusivity,” and added that the agreements were “really important” because “otherwise Bing or...
...As well as Bing, which is the only foreign search engine consistently available in China, and which censors Chinese search results but says this is limited to users in mainland China, Microsoft owns two...
...But jumping into social media would put the group under a political spotlight and it would highlight a business weakness: apart from its Bing search engine, Microsoft has had little success at using advertising...
...When Microsoft’s Bing, the last foreign search engine left in China, was briefly inaccessible last month it caused a spasm of worry among Chinese internet users that their only remaining choice might be...
...Additional reporting by Nikkei staff writer Coco Liu in Hong Kong A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 18 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc....
...Of course, users could go elsewhere, to Bing, to Yahoo (yes, it still exists) or to privacy protecting DuckDuckGo, but the problem is, they don't. Well, not in quantity anyway....
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