In the AI arms race, Big Tech keeps shooting itself in the foot and having to roll back flashy releases

• Microsoft has scaled back its Recall AI feature for Copilot+ PCs.
• This was after privacy campaigners raised red flags about some of Recall's screenshot capabilities.
• Google and Adobe have also rolled back some of their big AI releases following backlash.

In its race to do more with AI, Big Tech has been moving fast — and then rolling back big moves.

Microsoft became the latest to scale back an artificial intelligence feature within one month of announcing it, following backlash.