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TechCrunch Minute: Microsoft brings more generative AI to Bing


AI-powered search results and summaries are headed to Bing. Microsoft is rolling out generative search to a small percentage of users.

The goal is to give those users the answers they want right in their search results, potentially synthesizing information that they’d otherwise have to click through a bunch of different websites to find. At first, critics were focused on the danger this posed to the web — if you never need to click through your search results, it could be devastating for any business that makes money from online advertising. Of course, what people actually talked about once the Google launched its AI Overviews was less the long-term implications, and more the fact that some of the answers were laughably bad, advising users to glue cheese to their pizza and eat one rock per day.

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