Getty Images reader comments 42 Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That meant that searches from Microsoft’s Edge browsers that had yet to change their default providers didn’t work. It also meant that services relying on Bing’s search API—Microsoft’s own Copilot, ChatGPT search, Yahoo, Ecosia, and DuckDuckGo—similarly failed.… Read More »
Enlarge / The “new Bing” running directly from the Windows 11 taskbar. reader comments 18 with Share this story Microsoft is adding support for Bing Chat and the other “new Bing” features to the Windows taskbar as part of 2023’s first major Windows 11 feature update. Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay announced the updates… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 136 with Share this story Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing Chat service, still in private testing, has been in the headlines for its wild and erratic outputs. But that era has apparently come to an end. At some point during the past two days, Microsoft has significantly curtailed Bing’s… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 240 with Share this story Over the past few days, early testers of the new Bing AI-powered chat assistant have discovered ways to push the bot to its limits with adversarial prompts, often resulting in Bing Chat appearing frustrated, sad, and questioning its existence. It has argued with… Read More »
Enlarge / With the right suggestions, researchers can “trick” a language model to spill its secrets. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 109 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a “New Bing” search engine and conversational bot powered by ChatGPT-like technology from OpenAI. On Wednesday, a Stanford University student… Read More »
reader comments 98 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of previously announced technologies in a low-key presentation that included losing… Read More »
Enlarge / Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Microsoft’s modern life and devices group, speaks during an event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 33 with 0 posters participating Share this story Fresh off news of an extended partnership last month, Microsoft has announced a new… Read More »
Enlarge / A preview of Microsoft Designer’s AI text-to-image feature, which can generate images from written prompts. reader comments 31 with 23 posters participating, including story author Share this story During a Surface press event today, Microsoft announced integrations of AI-powered image-generation technology into its Bing search engine, Edge browser, and a new Office app… Read More »