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For the past two decades, search engines have answered most users’ queries in the same way: with a ranked list of webpages. But Microsoft’s unveiling of its AI-powered Bing search engine this week suggests this period of stasis is over, tech critic Kevin Roose writes. Using natural language, a user can ask Bing to do tasks as diverse as planning a dinner party — it’ll serve up a menu with links to sources — to drafting a social media post or summarizing a financial report. “It’s an entirely new way of interacting with information on the internet,” Roose writes.

An AI arms race is underway between two tech giants. Here's who has an edge.

by Tanya Dua -- Linkedin -- A deep-dive into one big theme or news story every week. Though I hesitated to call it as such until recently, the rapidly unfolding events of the past week would suggest that we’re squarely in the midst of an AI arms race. ICYMI: Last Friday, Google invested $300 million into Anthropic on the heels of Microsoft’s (LinkedIn's parent company) recent $10 billion investment into ChatGPT-creator OpenAI. Google quickly followed with an unveiling of its own AI chatbot, Bard, on Monday. Microsoft then made waves when, a day later, it announced ChatGPT’s integration with its search engine Bing.

Google has had an indisputable stranglehold on search for a long time, but the heralding of AI as the next big frontier in technology has somewhat leveled out the playing field. And the viral popularity of ChatGPT is only adding more heat, with the OpenAI chatbot recently becoming the fastest-growing consumer app in internet history. “The internet search wars are back,” declared the Financial Times’ Richard Waters, noting that AI has “opened the first new front in the battle for search dominance since Google fended off a concerted challenge from Microsoft’s Bing more than a decade ago.” And this time around, Google is at a disadvantage, not just because of Microsoft’s first-mover advantage or Bard’s bumpy debut this week, some experts say.

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