FILE PHOTO: Smartphone is seen in front of Microsoft logo displayed in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
NEW YORK: Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its Internet-search data, which it licences to rival search engines, if they don’t stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence (AI) chat products, according to sources.
The software maker licences the data in its Bing search index – a map of the Internet that can be quickly scanned in real time – to other companies that offer web search, such as Apollo Global Management Inc’s Yahoo and DuckDuckGo.
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