While Google and Microsoft go head-to-head over Chrome versus Edge and Google Search versus Bing, the much bigger spat is over AI. Google has now taken Gemini to its next level, causing consternation across some users at the difficulties in disabling the features on platforms such as Gmail.

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The changes are part of an effort on the companies’ part to boost the adoption of their AI tools among business users. Microsoft ships an AI assistant called Copilot as part of its Microsoft 365 productivity suite. Google, in turn, offers the Gemini machine learning feature bundle to users of its rival Workspace suite.

This is still acceptable, considering the full-screen Edge, Bing, and Copilot pop-ups that appear when using Google Chrome on Windows 11, but now Microsoft is going beyond just showing an ad on the Bing page. It will now hide the Google Chrome download link behind a See more button.

After Microsoft Edge, Chrome tests a Split Tabs feature which will reduce the need to spawn a new tabs and snap it to the side.

Microsoft 365 is getting a $3-per-month price increase for Copilot AI tools. Existing subscribers can opt out by jumping through hoops, but only for a limited time.

As noticed by Windows Latest, searches for Chrome using Edge and via Bing (when signed out of your Microsoft account) on Windows 11 result in a

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The three biggest tech companies all offer a wealth of options to limit screen time, find lost devices, and more.

Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like popups to get people to ditch Google. Microsoft has even previously had to reverse pop-up ads inside Google Chrome to address “unintended behavior.”

The biggest figures in artificial intelligence sparred over the dangers of the rapidly advancing technology at the World Economic Forum this week, as hype swirled around a $500bn AI infrastructure project touted by Donald Trump.