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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

Microsoft's proposed AI governance blueprint includes putting in new safety requirements, creating new regulations for AI services, and offering academic and non-profit access to those systems.

Opera has launched the AI-powered Aria browser. The new Bing Chat rival feature offers integrated access to generative AI services within the Opera browser. Here's how to test the Aria browser.

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.

Microsoft Bing achieved a significant milestone by overtaking Baidu as the top desktop search engine in China. This showcases the importance of AI-driven innovations in the search engine market.

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.

Twitter has written a letter to Microsoft to review its use of Twitter data and to complain that the company hasn't paid for access. It wants a report back from the company by next month.

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.

Altman added that he is concerned about how generative AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT could be used for misinformation and for interfering in future elections in his statements to the Senate panel.

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.

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.

Microsoft could issue Bing Chat model updates three times a year to improve its capabilities, Mikhail Parakhin has revealed. Nothing is set in stone and it is really just the best guess at this point.

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.

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching its initial review into generative AI to see how it could affect competition or affect consumers. It'll publish a report in September.

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.

Microsoft's chief economist Michael Schwarz believes that governments should worry less about AI taking jobs and more about how scammers could use AI tools to interfere in upcoming elections.

Samsung sent out a memo to its employees barring them from using chatbots like Bing Chat, Google Bard, and ChatGPT at work after some employees used them to upload secret company info.

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.

Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered one of the major developers of modern AI, recently left his job at Google so he could speak more freely about the risks of letting AI get out of control.

Welcome back to another edition of Microsoft Weekly where we recap all the important events that happened in the Redmond technology giant's universe in the past few days. Dive right in!

The new Skype Insider build 8.97.76.300 also adds the "GPT AI Co-pilot" conversation header on all platforms for Bing Chat, along with a number of bug fixes for various issues and platforms.

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.

When visiting Google Bard's website, users noticed that Microsoft Edge Canary and Dev now show a large Bing AI ad in the browser's address bar, offering to compare the two AI-powered chatbots.

The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science has penned an open letter, that you can sign, calling for more research into consciousness. It says this will help us better understand AI.

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

The open source software is designed to assist chatbots with large language models by keeping them on track with their answers and avoiding false or even crazy responses to questions.

The third party JavaGPT application allows the ChatGPT chatbot to run on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 7, and other older versions of Microsoft's operating system with a Java GUI.

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly contains all you would need to know about the latest events that transpired in the world of Microsoft during the past week, dive right in without further ado!

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 new feature will allow Bard users to not only generate code, but it can also help with debugging code. However, Microsoft's Bing Chat has had the ability to generate code for some time.

Microsoft has released an update for SwiftKey on Android. The latest version addresses the main complaint flooding the Google Play Store reviews section since the addition of Bing AI integration.

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.