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Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake

Google's Bard, an answer to Microsoft's ChatGPT, delivered a factual error in a search demo that the company shared widely. That sent Alphabet's market value plummeting this week.

WEKU

Bill Gates' broken marriage, affair and new girlfriend who is a millionaire's widow

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates got divorced from wife Melinda in 2021 after 27 years of marriage - and now the new 'mystery woman' he's found love with has been unveiled

Daily Mirror

Microsoft Could Give Up Call of Duty To Keep Candy Crush

The biggest FPS franchise in gaming might not be what Microsoft is after in the Activision Blizzard deal.

Inverse

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Twitter gets EU yellow card for disinformation reporting effort

Elon Musk's Twitter was hit with a yellow card from the European Commission on Thursday as its reported efforts to tackle disinformation fell short of those by Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and TikTok.

Reuters

Why did Google’s ChatGPT rival go wrong and are AI chatbots overhyped?

Alphabet’s shares plummeted after Bard gave incorrect answer in a demo

The Guardian - UK

Alphabet spent $2 billion on layoffs. Here’s how much job cuts cost Meta, Amazon, and 7 other companies

Companies conduct layoffs to cut costs, but they end up being a pricey approach.

Fortune

Microsoft to lay off 120 Irish staff as part of global job cuts

Microsoft had previously announced it was going to cut a whopping 11,000 of its 221,000 full-time jobs across the world

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The new Bing is out. Now it needs to make money

Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi says the company has just started discussing with advertisers what ads will look like in a A.I. search world.

Fortune

Google AI chatbot Bard sends shares plummeting after it gives wrong answer

Chatbot Bard incorrectly said James Webb Space Telescope was first to take pictures of planet outside Earth’s solar system

The Guardian - UK

Alphabet shares dive by $144b after Google AI chatbot Bard makes error in ad

The massive stock market dive comes as longtime rival Microsoft launches a campaign to dominate the search engine space.

ABC News

Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech's AI race will transform search – and all of computing

Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice.

The Conversation

Microsoft's Revamped Bing Could Actually Upstage Google Search

Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI on Bing and Edge could make the company's search engine a real competitor to Google for the first time.

Inverse

TotalEnergies caps off record-breaking week of Big Oil profits

The Big Oil bonanza keeps on coming, as France's TotalEnergies rounds out a week of record profits. Oil and gas giants have faced growing criticism about their environmental impact, as well as calls to pay higher taxes while households and businesses struggle with high energy prices. Also in the show:…

France 24

UK regulator wants Microsoft to sell Activision or Call of Duty

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said the Microsoft Activision deal could hamper innovation in cloud gaming and raise prices

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Madden and Gundam lead the Xbox Game Pass games for February 2023

Microsoft announced the Xbox Game Pass games for February 2023, and while the lineup is a bit slim, there are some heavy hitters in the mix

USA Today Sports Media Group

Fans aren’t happy about the prospect of higher Switch game prices

Nintendo may be raising Switch game prices, if a leaked Tears of the Kingdom eShop listing is anything to go by, and fans are not pleased

The Independent UK

AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound

Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence

Fortune

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal put on pause by regulator

The U.K.'s antitrust regulator sees structural remedies as possible solutions to the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal.

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Daily Mirror

Call of Duty could be removed from Microsoft's Activision deal as merger may "harm" UK gamers

The CMA has offered compromises which include removing Call of Duty from Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Zenger

Look Out Google, Microsoft Is Coming For Search Share: Why Satya Nadella Says ‘I’ve Never Ever Felt This Liberated In Terms Of Opportunity’

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) doubled down on its investment in OpenAI's ChatGPT last month, and among the many use cases, the tech giant has set its sights on arguably the most near-term AI opportunity

The Independent UK

UK watchdog says Microsoft's Activision deal hurts gamers

Microsoft’s stalled $68.7 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard has hit a fresh hurdle in the United Kingdom

Evening Standard

The battle of the chatbots: What will be the next ChatGPT?

A new wave of conversational chatbots could revolutionise the way we search the web

The Guardian - UK

Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition will harm UK gamers, says watchdog

CMA says Xbox maker’s takeover of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft owner could lead to higher prices

Evening Standard

UK competition regulator pours cold water on £57 billion Microsoft Activision takeover

The merger ‘could harm UK gamers’, the watchdog said

Fortune

Microsoft and OpenAI on the ‘new paradigm’ of search

Microsoft is moving fast by working with a startup on its next search engine, but it’s also sacrificing some control of the narrative.

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