Early this morning, Microsoft and many of the platforms featured on their devices, including ChatGPT and Copilot, were hit by outages caused by the Bing API. Following an outage of the Microsoft ...

Both ChatGPT’s internet search and DuckDuckGo lean on Bing’s API, which made them collateral damage in this meltdown.

One of those companies is DuckDuckGo, a search engine that uses Microsoft's Bing search API for some of its searches. In March, DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, its own chatbot that would have ...