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The new upper limit on chat turns in the Bing Chat chatbot service was confirmed by Microsoft exec Jordi Ribas today, and this is the first expansion of this feature since mid-March.

The next Bing Chat update from Microsoft will also have some more improvements for Bing Image Creator, and a "big internals refactoring" so it can launch support for third-party plugins

Adding Bing search to OpenAI's ChatGPT will bring more recent information to the chatbot, while the new Bing Chat plugin partners will include Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Redfin, and more.

The increase in characters from 2,000 to 4,000 for each Bing Chat message should make it easier for users to ask more complex questions to Microsoft's chatbot AI that might need the extra characters

Microsoft also confirmed that the chat history feature is now available for all Bing Chat users along with improved answers for recipe questions, and a number of other improvements.

A fresh, new report claims that Samsung has paused the internal review that was looking into replacing Google Search as its smartphone's default search engine with Microsoft's Bing.

The new features allow Microsoft's Bing Chat users to not only copy and share chats with others, but to download and save them in Text, Word, and even PDF files. More export options are in the works.

The announcement from Microsoft's Bing Vice President Michael Schechter, should allow even more people to check out the company's Bing Chat chatbot AI without having to get a Microsoft Account.

Bing Chat has gained the ability to provide visual answers to some questions, along with improvements in copying and pasting answers as well as formatting for some prompts like bullets and numbers.

According to a new report, some senior Microsoft execs are apparently eyeing a deal with Mozilla's Firefox in a bid to replace Google as the default search engine, with its own New Bing.

It's been by far the most requested additonal feature by users of Microsoft's Bing Chat chatbot, and now the chat history option has started rolling out for at least some folks online.

Some current Bing Chat users are reporting that responses from the chatbot are very slow at the moment, but Microsoft says this will be fixed by adding more GPUs to its Bing Chat servers.

The new formatting will allow answers in Bing Chat to use features like bold lettering, along with answers in bulleted lists and tables when Microsoft's chatbot is in Creative mode.

Among other announcements, the Biden Administration revealed that companies with AI systems like Microsoft and Google have agreed to have them tested at the annual DEFCON hacking conference.

The third-party plug-in support will allow businesses and developers to access Bing Chat's generative AI features, with ways to reserve a table at a restaurant directly from within Bing Chat.

Other new features that will be added soon to Bing Chat include the ability to quickly export and share chats with others, improvements in creating summaries of long documents, and more.

In a blog post, Natasha Crampton, Microsoft's Chief Responsible AI Officer, outlined how the company plans to keep to its own principles concerning its artificial intelligence products.

Brave Search has announced that its search results are now completely from its own index. It no longer accesses Microsoft's Bing API, which previously generated 7 percent of its results.

In addition to the travel and recipes improvements, the Bing Chat team has made further changes to reduce the number of times the chatbot ends conversations abruptly, along with an Edge sidebar fix.

The new update should cut down on the number of times Bing Chat won't continue a conversation by over three times, which should be a great help to the users of Microsoft's chatbot AI

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The latest weekly update from Microsoft also improves Bing Chat answers when it comes to questions about the news, along with fewer instances when the chatbot abruptly ends a conversation

The report claims that Microsoft has been developing the Athena AI chip since 2019, and it hopes it can help cut the cost of running servers with AI-themed large language programs.

A reporter for the Austrian website derStandard points out that Google's agreements for adding the Play Store to Android phones also means they must include Google Search as the default.

Microsoft has unveiled improvements to its Bing integration with multiple apps and services including Microsoft Start, SwiftKey, and Skype. The company is on a mission to bring Bing everywhere.

Some Bing search users have spotted a new toggle in search results called "Compact View" that when enabled cuts down on the amount of info on a subject but also makes the result less cluttered.

Microsoft exec Mikhail Parakhin was asked on Twitter if third-party plugin support for Bing Chat could be added like there is now for ChatGPT, and his response was simply, "Stay tuned."

In addition to longer messages in Bing Chat, Microsoft's chatbot can pick up a conversation in the sidebar where you left the chat in the main window, and there are some performance improvements.

Microsoft says that when this feature becomes available, Edge users can create art in Bing Image Creator in the sidebar, and then place it in an Outlook email or anything that users can edit

The new version of Bing Chat will roll out in two stages this week. The second stage will hopefully see Microsoft's chatbot cut down on "disengagements" to improve the user experience.

The latest development update on Bing Chat also includes some improvements for local searches, along with some other additions and improvements for users of Microsoft's chatbot service.

After the flaws were discovered by a security research team, they reported the issues to Microsoft. The company has since released patches and fixes that have closed this serious issue.

Microsoft is starting to place links to ads inside of Bing Chat conversations. It is working with its Microsoft Start partners to place ads both inside chats or rich captions beside chat answers.

A new and better format for showing math solutions is currently being tested by a small percentage of Bing Chat users and will become available for everyone in the very near future.

A new report claims Microsoft has told two search engines that get some data from Bing to not use that information to power their own AI chatbots, which could compete with Microsoft's Bing Chat.

Microsoft has fixed some nagging Bing Chat issues, including some improvements with detecting a voice in the Bing mobile app and more, but the ability to save chat histories is still in development.