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Microsoft runs Copilot, Bing and the Clarity analytics tool, and is OpenAI's co-defendant in several of the copyright suits on this record.
10 items on the wire, newest first. Elsewhere: official · Wikipedia · Wikidata
Microsoft is testing a label change on Bing Search's dedicated AI tab, from Copilot to AI Mode — the name Google uses for its own AI search mode — per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 25 · · Engines, AEO
Times Publishing Company, the corporate publisher of the Tampa Bay Times, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Sept. 16 in the Southern District of New York…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 16 · · Law & Money
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a claim that GitHub's Copilot coding assistant violated copyright law by stripping copyright management…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 16 · · Law & Money
Katelyn Gray filed a shareholder derivative suit against Satya Nadella, other Microsoft directors and officers, and Microsoft itself on Sept. 9 in the…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 9 · · Law & Money
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a joint copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Sept. 4 in the Southern District of New York, the same day…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 5 · · Law & Money, SEO
Microsoft now requires users to sign in to reach Copilot directly, whether at copilot.microsoft.com or via the Copilot button on Bing's homepage, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 31 · · Engines, AEO
Microsoft is testing a rename of the AI answer box atop Bing Search results, from Copilot Search to AI Overviews — the term Google uses for its own AI…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 27 · · Engines, AEO
Microsoft Clarity's Bot Analytics dashboard added an AI Scrape-to-Referral Ratio card on August 13, ranking which AI crawlers send return visitors against…
Via Semrush Blog ↗ · Aug 19 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
A federal judge overseeing the consolidated In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation denied the New York Times, Daily News, and Ziff Davis leave to…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 7 · · Law & Money
Microsoft Clarity's AI Citations dashboard now labels queries as branded or non-branded and breaks out Share of Authority by query type, the company said…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 3 · · Tools & Vendors
