The Story of Microsoft Bing

You’re meeting us at a ‘very Chinese time in our lives’ and today’s episode is no exception — it’s all about China. First, Oz explains China’s attempt to claw a Singaporean AI company, Manus, back from Meta. And why Chinese customs are rejecting NVIDIA H200 chips. Is China fighti ... Show More

Ever wonder why Gen Z is so obsessed with Millennial culture? Casey Lewis can tell you. She’s a trend researcher and author of “After School,” a Substack newsletter about youth and internet culture. Casey joins Karah to discuss why Gen Z is doubling down on nostalgia and buying u ... Show More

What would you do if AI took your clothes off? Elon Musk’s AI model, Grok, will strip women of their clothes when prompted and the results are all over X.com. “Nudify” apps and communities have been doing this for years, but now it’s trending on one of the biggest social media pl ... Show More

<p>Microsoft n’en démord pas : pour concurrencer Google, l’entreprise mise sur toutes les stratégies pour positionner Bing comme moteur de recherche incontournable. Sa dernière initiative ? Un jeu-concours lancé via Microsoft Rewards pour inciter les internautes à adopter Bing et ... Show More

Microsoft's new AI-powered search engine BING launched with much fanfare but users have reported some disturbing experiences with the recently-released search chatbot. 

When you go to look something up on the internet, more often than not you’re Googling. The search engine’s ubiquity has earned Google billions and billions of dollars, but now a US judge has ruled that Google became a monopoly illegally. How you search the internet might change a ... Show More

<p>Jordan Koene, Co-Founder and CEO of PreVisible.io, talks about what’s happening in SEO news. Rumors are swirling that Samsung has plans to ditch Google and partner with Bing as its default search engine. While Samsung hasn’t officially announced the switch, this potential part ... Show More

<p>Microsoft showed how it will integrate its Prometheus generation LLM into its new Bing search and Edge, Google demos its Bard conversation system and AI-enhanced search, and Alibaba says it began internally testing a ChatGPT-like system.</p><br><p>Get the show notes <a href="h ... Show More

Google whistles past the graveyard with the remedy ruling on its antitrust case. OpenAI makes a big acquisition. Anthropic has a big new raise and a huge new valuation to boot. And why are AI companies finding it so hard to engineer safe interactions with Chatbots? Links: Google ... Show More

<p>E461: Is Google losing search market share? The Wall Street Journal is suggesting it might be.</p> <p>Not only that, but many pundits are saying TikTok and AI chatbots are taking a meaningful amount of searches from Google.</p> <p>So here is all the data on Google's yearly per ... Show More

<p>DuckDuckGo confirmed that its mobile browser allows trackers from Microsoft as part of its search agreement, Ikea announces a new Matter-ready smart home hub, and Microsoft announced a new Windows on Arm dev kit and Arm-native developer tools.</p><br><p>Get the show notes <a h ... Show More

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Alex Heath, and Lauren Feiner discuss a federal judge ruling that Google violated US antitrust law, X suing a group of major advertisers over an “illegal boycott”, and the rest of this week's wild tech news. Further reading: Judge rules that G ... Show More