Microsoft Threatens To Restrict Rival Ai Chatbot Access To Bing Data

Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they don’t stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products. The software maker licenses the data in its Bing search index to other companies that offer web search, such as Apollo Global Management Inc.’s Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Alphabet Inc.’s Google and DuckDuckGo have both recently released their own AI chatbots, while You.com and Neeva Inc. have also released their own search engines.