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In the filing earlier this month, Google argued that Microsoft pitched Apple in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2020 about making Bing the default in Apple’s Safari web browser, but each time, Apple said no, citing quality issues with Bing. “In each instance, Apple took a hard look at the relative quality of Bing versus Google and concluded that Google was the superior default choice for its Safari users. That is competition,” Google wrote in the filing. The Justice Department said in its own… Source link

Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is bringing big changes to its generative AI bot Bard, rebranding the software as Gemini to match the underlying AI model that powers it, and announcing a new premium version for consumers. Gemini Advanced is a paid version of the company’s bot that gives users access to its Google’s largest AI model, Gemini Ultra, for $19.99 per month as part of the company’s Google One AI Premium plan. In addition to access to Gemini Ultra, the subscription includes 2TB of Google… Source link

Microsoft Bing managed to steal a tiny bit of Google’s search market share in the last year in the U.S., even less globally. But make no mistake – Google remains the dominant search engine. This despite the launch of the new Bing, powered by ChatGPT designed for Search, one year ago, which many believed could ignite a true contender to challenge Google. Instead, the search market remains essentially at status quo. Why we care. When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced the new… Source link

Mozilla has decided to be more vocal about the ways in which Apple, Google, and Microsoft set technical requirements that have hindered development of its Firefox web browser, and therefore harmed competition. Many of the competitive barriers have been discussed for years – in technical circles, and behind closed doors with regulators. During those years, Firefox’s 30 percent of the global browser market share slipped steadily. Today, just over three percent of browser users… Source link

A photo generated with the Image Creator from Designer, using the prompt “a photo of a robot taking a picture with a DSLR camera in a studio.” Maria Diaz/ZDNET via Image Creator from Designer As the use of different artificial intelligence (AI) tools has exploded in the past year, we’ve seen the development of generative AI sprouting in the most unlikely places. The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in fall of 2022 quickly led to Google, Microsoft, and Meta all coming up with their own AI… Source link

“Throughout the second half of 2023, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, and to align their resources to their biggest product priorities,” a spokesperson for the Mountain View, California-based company said in a statement. “Some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organisational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.” Alphabet shares were little changed on Thursday, closing at US$142.08 in New York. A statue of the… Source link

The cost of switching between cloud-computing providers has long drawn complaints, with the services derided as “roach motels” that let businesses check in but not out. Now Alphabet Inc.’s Google is taking steps to change that. Effective immediately, the company is eliminating fees levied on customers who want to leave its cloud for a rival service — a policy shift that may pressure competitors Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to do the same. Source link

Amazon, Microsoft are boosting Saudi offices amid state pressure SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images Global technology giants including Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp. are among firms working to ramp up their presence in Saudi Arabia amid pressure from the government, which has said it will stop giving contracts to companies without regional headquarters in the country. The three US firms… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Explore Microsoft Bing Deep Search With GPT-4 & Generative AI Plans For 2024  Search Engine Journal Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Microsoft Bing adds new Deep Search generative AI feature  Search Engine Land Source link