Microsoft announced it will be using technology from its partnership with the startup OpenAI to bring chat GPT-like technology into the Microsoft search engine. This means Microsoft's Bing is taking the fight to Google over how people find and use information online. The big battle that's happening right now is really between two of the largest tech companies in the world, Microsoft and Alphabet through Google. And so the big question in the tech industry is whose technology is actually better here.
The race for AI supremacy is on. Microsoft, Google, Baidu and a host of smaller firms are all placing bets on the technology’s future. Which version emerges on top may well determine how people find information online for decades to come. Luxury offices are a bright spot in the commercial real-estate doldrums. And why inflation is stalking Europe’s sweet treats.
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