Microsoft is improving Bing Image Creator with a faster and higher-quality DALL-E 3 model, the ability to create images directly from Bing search and Microsoft Edge search bar.
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Microsoft Bing, after Google Search, has dropped support for cached links and cache operator support in search results.
Microsoft has launched a new Bing experience to help users track the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Microsoft announced several new features for its Bing Webmaster Tools users, including a new private preview that will add Copilot functions.
The Microsoft Rewards program has launched a new sweepstakes in several of its regions where the grand prize winner will get $1 million.
Microsoft is expanding its new Bing generative search experience to more informational queries. This experience uses AI to create customized answers and features them in the search results.
Microsoft will add web search query citations in October for people who use its Copilot generative AI assistant so users can be informed where it receives answers to questions.
Microsoft has announced a new partnership with StopNCII to help detect intimate images that would be labeled as harmful from its Bing search engine
OpenAI has made its powerful image generation model, DALL-E 3, available to all ChatGPT users, including those on the free tier. But free users have a limit of two AI images per day.
Microsoft has added a new function for the previously announced Commute map feature on the Bing Android app. Users can now add more destinations with the feature other than home or work.
In a new interview, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman claims Microsoft previously trained its AI services on data from its site "without telling us", which is why Reddit ended up blocking Microsoft.
Reddit has blocked search engines, including Bing, from crawling its site by updating the robots.txt file. Also, it claims that this change has nothing to do with its recent partnership with Google.
Microsoft has announced that a small number of Bing search users will be able to access Bing generative search which combines generative AI and LLMs for a more advanced search experience.
Microsoft is sending messages to members of its Cashback program, revealing that the receipt scanning feature will no longer be available as of July 25, 2024. The program itself will continue.
Back in December, Microsoft began testing AI-generated Edge Workspaces. The feature has since made it to the Stable channel and recently, the Redmond giant quietly shared details about it.
Jordi Ribas, the corporate vice president for search and AI at Microsoft, posted some thoughts on the company's Bing search engine as it celebrates the 15th anniversary of its launch on June 3, 2009.
Microsoft has revealed it will be retiring its Bing Maps for Enterprise service on June 30, 2028, with no new customers accepted after June 30, 2024. Its tech and data will be merged with Azure Maps.
Weather from Microsoft Start has been named as the most accurate global forecast provider by the ForecastWatch assessment company for 2023. This is the second year in a row for this honor.
Microsoft says its Copilot generative AI assistant is "continuing to recover" after an outage occurred in its Bing search engine API earlier this morning. Bing is still out for some users.
Microsoft has revealed it has created a new AI prediction model for its Start weather service. It can now better predict when clouds and rain might happen via both radar and satellite data.
A problem with Microsoft's Bing API has caused many not to be able to use the search engine for a number of hours this morning. It's also affected Copilot and third-party services like DuckDuckGo.
The European Union announced today that Microsoft has not sent over requested information on some of its generative AI tools, and has given the company until May 27 to do so, or risk being fined.
A security organization discovered a Microsoft Azure storage server in February that included sensitive data that was not password-protected. Microsoft has since secured the server.
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.
Senators from both parties are criticizing Microsoft for its censorship of Bing results for users in China. Compliance with local law allows it to operate on the market. However, it comes at a price.
Microsoft has announced a new "Microsoft AI" division for its artificial intelligence efforts. Led by a DeepMind co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, it will also govern Edge, Bing, and Copilot projects.
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.
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.
