Microsoft has announced Bing Chat Enterprise, a security-minded version of its Bing Chat AI chatbot that’s made specifically for use by company employees.
The announcement comes in response to a large number of businesses implementing wide-reaching bans on the technology — including companies like Apple, Goldman Sachs, Verizon, and Samsung. ChatGPT was the main target, but alternatives like Bing Chat and Google Bard were included in the bans.
The most commonly quoted reason for these bans is security and privacy, which is exactly what Bing Chat Enterprise aims to address.
According to a blog post published as a part of Microsoft Inspire, the point of Bing Chat Enterprise is to assure organizations that both user and business data never leaks outside of the company. “What goes in — and comes out — remains protected,” as the blog post states. This also includes chat data, which Microsoft says it cannot see or use to train the models.
Unfortunately, Microsoft didn’t provide much in the way of explaining how exactly this differs from the standard version of Bing Chat, only stating that “using AI tools that aren’t built for the enterprise inadvertently puts sensitive business data at risk.” Microsoft says Bing Chat Enterprise still uses web data and provides sourced answers, along with citations to web links. It can be accessed right from the standard Bing Chat places, including at Bing.com, through the Microsoft Edge sidebar, and eventually, through Windows Copilot.
Bing Chat Enterprise is available in preview today and is a free inclusion to Microsoft 365. Microsoft even says the application will also soon be available as a stand-alone tool for $5 per month per user.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.