Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

You.com founder Richard Socher knows that his company has always been a David going after the Goliath in search, Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft. He likes to point out that his company built search based on generative AI in December, several months before the other giant search players made their announcements. Today, the […] You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

The other week I spotted this Twitter thread where someone was able to ask Microsoft Bing AI chat what its codename is. In short, Bing AI responded that it was "Sydney." The back-and-forth interaction is very Westworld interaction-like, which is funny.... →

When the new Microsoft Bing AI copilot was announced, and I reported about the changes to the Bing webmaster guidelines, Glenn Gabe also picked up on some potentially problematic language in the new Bing terms of service.... →

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Оно навсегда отключит браузер на компьютерах под управлением Windows 10... →

Similar to what we reported about with Google a few months ago, with Google testing a map within a search snippet for a specific company. It seems like Microsoft Bing is testing the same thing, well, it depends on how you search for the company.... →

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco back in 2008, with cofounder David Sacks formally launching the startup at a TechCrunch startup event. The company went on to raise north of […] Microsoft ditches Yammer brand and goes all-in on Viva Engage by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Highbeam, a startup that provides banking features, credit and cash flow insights to e-commerce customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in debt from TriplePoint as it looks to expand the reach of its digital product portfolio. Co-founders Samir Shergill (previously at Microsoft, McKinsey and AppNexus) and Gautam Gupta (formerly of Shopify, Venmo and […] Highbeam secures $10M loan to provide credit, spend monitoring and more to e-commerce retailers by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCr... →

What an insane week between the AI announcements, algorithm updates, content, and so much more. I start off talking about Google's Bard announcement and a bit about the Paris announcement two days later. But Microsoft Bing stole the show....... →

Microsoft Bing is now tucking away its logo, hiding it from searchers, after you conduct a search using your mobile device. Bing will anchor you down to the top of the search box, moving the Microsoft Bing logo out of view, and focusing just on the search results page.... →

The tech layoffs keep on coming. Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced that it is laying off 10% of its staff through the end of the company’s fiscal year. Before this announcement, GitHub had about 3,000 employees. The company will also shutter all of its offices as their leases end, in part because of their low utilization, […] GitHub lays off 10% and goes fully remote by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

ChatGPT is getting all the attention as of late, but modern AI technologies have a range of use cases beyond finally making Bing useful. One emerging trend is putting AI to work to aid with the frustrating and laborious task of filing and auditing corporate expense reports. Today, Microsoft and American Express announced a deal […] Amex and Microsoft turn to AI to make expense reports less horrible by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

GitLab is the latest tech company to announce a round of layoffs, as the developer operations (DevOps) giant revealed today that it’s reducing its headcount by 7 percent. It has been a tough 2023 so far for the technology industry, with most of the big tech companies announcing staff cutbacks, including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Salesforce. […] GitLab to reduce workforce by 7% by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Сторонние компании смогут делать персонализированные версии популярного чат-бота... →

Загрузки поисковика по всему миру выросли в 10 раз... →

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model. With this, Microsoft jumped ahead of Google in bringing this kind of search experience to the mainstream, though we’ll likely see the competition heat up in […] Hands-on with the new Bing by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Microsoft demoed its new Bing experience with co-pilot, ChatGPT and I got to say...... →

This week’s news about Microsoft’s plan to add ChatGPT-like capabilities to its search engine Bing has sent its companion mobile app into the App Store’s Top Charts as of Wednesday. On the U.S. App Store, the Bing app has surged to the No. 12 spot among all free iPhone apps, while Microsoft’s Edge browser is […] Bing’s previously unpopular app sees a 10x jump in downloads after Microsoft’s AI news by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer at Bridgewater Associates, grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. He wondered why there wasn’t a way to read and write on a PC that felt as fluid as paper, which led him to experiment with PDF […] Macro raises $9.3 to layer intelligence on top of digital documents by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Seven months after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed it was launching an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s $68.7 billion bid for video game giant Activision Blizzard, the U.K. competition regulator has provisionally concluded that the merger “could harm U.K. gamers” through higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation. Microsoft first revealed plans for […] UK regulator says Microsoft’s proposed $68.7B Activision merger could create ‘higher prices, fewer choices’ by Pau... →