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Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative
Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on ...
Bing Search APIs to be "decommissioned completely" as Microsoft urges developers to use its Azure agentic AI alternative
Microsoft quietly announced its plan to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs, and third-party app developers won't have access ...
Now AI agents are coming: Microsoft pulls the plug on Bing API
Microsoft is discontinuing its Bing search interface and relying on an AI tool instead. However, the competition is already ...
Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be ...
Microsoft expands AI roster with Anthropic and xAI integrations, looking beyond OpenAI alliance
Jay Parikh, Microsoft executive vice president and head of the company’s CoreAI engineering division, speaks at Build 2025 in ...
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Microsoft’s plan to retire Bing API and what it means for web search
Microsoft has announced it is to retire access to its Bing Search APIs on 11th August. “ Any existing instances of Bing ...
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I test AI chatbots for a living and these are the best ChatGPT alternatives
I test AI apps for a living and I’ve pulled together some of the best ChatGPT alternatives that I've ... first launched in a couple of versions as Bing Chat, Microsoft Edge AI chat, Bing with ...
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Firefox experiments with Perplexity AI in version 139
First reported by Hackread.com, Perplexity is currently live in Firefox version 139, with the test introducing a pop-up ...