Microsoft just gave Edge a major AI upgrade on desktop and mobile, letting Copilot reason across all your open tabs to compare details and answer questions. The update adds long-term memory, hands-free Voice and Vision, Journeys topic cards, and a tool to turn tabs into podcasts. Meanwhile, Microsoft is retiring its standalone Copilot Mode.
Microsoft just hired DeepMind and Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as EVP and CEO of a newly created unit, Microsoft AI. He brings along Inflection co-founder Karén Simonyan and core team members to oversee Copilot, Bing, and Edge. The talent raid shows Microsoft is eager to build its own consumer AI muscle rather than rely entirely on OpenAI.
Microsoft just celebrated six months of its AI-powered Bing, revealing users have logged over 1 billion chats and created 750 million images. The biggest news: Bing Chat is finally expanding to third-party browsers on web and mobile. Why it matters: Dropping the Edge requirement makes Microsoft's flagship AI features accessible to millions who refused to switch default browsers.
Microsoft just rolled out a suite of AI-powered shopping features across Bing and Edge to streamline product research. The new tools generate custom buying guides with side-by-side spec comparisons and use Bing Chat to condense web reviews into key pros and cons. Edge is also adding price tracking to help claim price matches. Review summaries are rolling out globally now.
Microsoft just announced that its Bing search engine has crossed 100 million active users, driven largely by the launch of Bing Chat. Notably, a third of active preview users are completely new to Bing, suggesting the AI assistant is drawing searchers away from rivals like Google. While still dwarfed by Google's 1 billion users, AI is finally making the search war interesting.
Microsoft just launched a new version of its Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by OpenAI's models, introducing a ChatGPT-like conversational experience directly to web search. Unlike base ChatGPT's 2021 cutoff, the new Bing pulls up-to-date real-time results and explicitly cites its sources. Why it matters: It marks the most aggressive bid yet to challenge Google's search monopoly, though full access currently requires joining a waitlist.
