In Brief: Microsoft has announced Bing Chat Enterprise to provide AI-powered chat for work
Now available to 160 million people, the company is also rolling out a visual search feature in chat.
Now available to 160 million people, the company is also rolling out a visual search feature in chat.
The civil suit alleged Amazon violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) law and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act because it collected children’s voice-print data via its Alexa voice assistant service and Alexa’s child-directed offerings. The claim was that Amazon was retaining children’s recordings indefinitely, rather than adhering to COPPA rules that they be kept only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill its business services.
This is in addition to California’s landmark consumer protection law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and is designed to protect personal information of employees, job applicants, and independent contractors.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.