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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s pursuit of Google reached a new milestone this week after the company announced that its AI-powered Bing search engine had surpassed 100 million daily active users.

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DuckDuckGo launched a beta version of an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT Wednesday called DuckAssist. The addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine uses ChatGPT and Anthropic’s language parsing capability to generate answers scraped from Wikipedia and related sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica.…

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The internet is full of Easter eggs and tricks, you just gotta know where to find them. Google is no stranger to its Daily Doodle, but Google also has some fun animations wrapped up in search results, but you’ll only see them with a few key search words.

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“Hey, Grogu, put that down,” I said to my screen, myself the only person in the room.

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Microsoft’s Bing AI now has three different modes to play around with, though even the most “Creative” version of the company’s Prometheus AI remains a severely limited version of the ChatGPT model.

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Google knows its AI just isn’t ready for prime time, so it has a new plan to iron out all the kinks, by forcing thousands of its workers to spend hours poking and prodding the poor AI until it won’t embarrass the company when it’s finally released.

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Yahoo, the legacy site that’s seen its ups and down over the years, is definitively heading toward a down. The company confirmed that it plans to let go of more than 20% of its global workforce in an apparent shift of its ambitious advertising platform that looked to compete with the biggest players in ad tech.

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Google plans to begin including AI-generated text answers to search queries in the coming months. The announcement came at the company’s (kind of slapdash) live event in Paris on Wednesday, along with numerous other updates to Search, Maps, and more.

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Google’s search engine is getting an upgrade—yes with AI, but also with a blur filter. In a bid to shield its user’s eyes, Google announced yesterday that it will blur explicit images in search results, even when SafeSearch isn’t turned on.

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Microsoft reps came out swinging Tuesday in a massive press blitz, though they were acting more like an artificial intelligence-driven Terminator than any live human being. Sure, the product folks at the company’s conference held at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington headquarters and on the company blog talked with all…

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