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Ahoy, all. Welcome back to the latest edition of Week in Review<\/a>, the newsletter where we point you to some of the most-read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning (which, not for nothin\u2019, used to be cartoon time for this Gen Xer)? Here\u2019s the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now, let\u2019s get on with this week in AI \u2014 I mean, this week in tech news.<\/p>\n Microsoft and AI:<\/a><\/strong> This week at a press event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that \u201cit\u2019s a new day for search.\u201d He was referring to the company\u2019s integration of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT-4 into Bing, its 13-year-old search engine. The hope, say the folks in Redmond, is that the integration will help Bing better compete with Google. Downloads of the app jumped 10x<\/a> after the AI news broke since Microsoft promises priority access to the new Bing to those who have it installed. Wanna get more in-depth? Check out Frederic\u2019s hands-on with the search engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Google and AI:<\/a><\/strong> Trying not to be outdone, Google this week announced Bard, its counterpart to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT. It\u2019s in a testing phase now and it will use Google\u2019s Language Model for Dialogue Applications to power a conversational AI that will draw on information on the web. But Devin also says that the company is losing control<\/a>.<\/p>\n MUM\u2019s the word (sorry, that was too easy):<\/a><\/strong> Google also announced this week that its \u201cmultisearch\u201d feature, which allows users to search using images and text, is now available globally on mobile. And guess what powers multisearch? AI tech called Multitask Unified Model. MUM!<\/p>\n GitHub layoffs:<\/a><\/strong> This week, Microsoft\u2019s GitHub announced it is laying off 10% of its staff of 3,000. As part of the effort to \u201cprotect the short-term health\u201d of the company, GitHub will also close all of its offices and go fully remote.<\/p>\n Apple execs on the M2:<\/a><\/strong> In a wide-ranging interview with Apple VPs, my boss and TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino explored the company\u2019s latest in its M line of chips, and went deep on the M2 MacBook Pro and Mac mini models. Spoiler alert: They\u2019re faster.<\/p>\n India blocks betting and loan apps:<\/a><\/strong> India\u2019s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has called to block 232 betting and loan apps in order to keep users\u2019 data safe, among other reasons.<\/p>\n Football!:<\/a><\/strong> It\u2019s Super Bowl LVII time and there are ways you\u2019ll be able to stream it. Get all the details here.<\/p>\n On Equity<\/a> this week, Natasha spoke to Cleo\u2019s chief business officer and former CEO SJ Sacchetti about ego, setting boundaries, stepping down and becoming a \u201cstatistic\u201d and why a company needs to succeed without you. And on Found<\/a>, Darrell and Becca talked to Keta Burke-Williams, the founder and CEO of direct-to-consumer fragrance company Ourside, about what got her interested in disrupting the behemoth \u2014 and outdated \u2014 fragrance industry.<\/p>\n TC+ subscribers get access to in-depth commentary, analysis and surveys \u2014 which you know if you\u2019re already a subscriber. If you\u2019re not, consider signing up<\/a>. Here are a few highlights from this week:<\/em><\/p>\n The bias of AI:<\/strong><\/a> Dom reports that bias appears in most aspects of AI, from investment and hiring to data collection and production. So the question remains: Who is the next frontier of AI really for?<\/p>\n Africa\u2019s startup ecosystem:<\/a><\/strong> Last year saw record investments in African startups. Tage talked to eight investors and discovered that key to this was pre-seed and seed-stage investors. But there is still a long way to go.<\/p>\n Spinach.io\u2019s Pitch Deck Teardown:<\/a><\/strong> Haje turns his attention to the seed deck of Spinach.io, a company building out its meeting tool for engineers.<\/p>\nmost read<\/h2>\n
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