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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 working to extend the amount of time artwork made from its Bing Image Creator are saved online, and it may offer integration with its OneDrive cloud file service in the future.

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's Bing team has announced a new search feature called Generative AI Captions that will summarize webpage content via GPT 4 with search results. Webmasters can opt out of these features.

Microsoft has announced a set of changes for its AI-powered chatbots. Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise are now Copilot. In addition, it unveiled Copilot Studio and Copilot for Sales.

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 and Oracle have announced another new multi-year agreement that will let Microsoft use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power its Bing services. Financial details were not disclosed.

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's Mikhail Parakhin took to Twitter today to ask Bing Chat users if Microsoft should concentrate on making Bing Chat faster or making DALL-E 3.0 faster for Bing Image Creator

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 took the stand today in the DOJ's case against Google where he talked about Microsoft's plan for Bing and the company's struggles because of Google's alleged monopoly in the market.

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.

Bing AI Chat may be serving bad and malicious websites via ads to the users. A new report tested Bing Ads and found it relatively easy for someone to inject malicious ads into Bing AI Chat.

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

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 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

Apple and Microsoft have reached out to the European Union to defend their position in regards to iMessage and Bing respectively, to ensure they don't end up on the regulator's 'gatekeeper' list.

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.

According to a growing list of user reports (and our own observations), Windows 10 and 11 are now displaying ads targeting Chrome users, begging them to set Bing as their default search engine.

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.

Microsoft launched Bing AI six months ago. During this period, the company was busy adding new features, further expanding the service's capabilities. Here is a recap of what the company has done.

Tonight on Microsoft Weekly: Microsoft reports its finances and gets slapped with an antitrust investigation from the EU; Windows 11 receives new builds and features; and Edge has a new mascot.

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.

Microsoft is expanding the reach of Bing Chat to more users on Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers, but it's still being tested and is not available to everyone just yet.

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.

OpenAI has removed the Bing Integration from ChatGPT Plus after users started using the chatbot to circumvent paywalls to read articles. There is no word on when the integration will be available.