<ul><li>Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers by retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11th.</li><li>Developers are now recommended to use 'grounding with Bing Search as part of Azure AI Agents' as a replacement for Bing Search APIs.</li><li>Some major customers like DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing to power its search engine, will retain access to the service after August 11th, but smaller developers will be affected.</li><li>This decision follows Microsoft's recent price hikes for accessing data and comes just before the Build developer conference and days after the US Department of Justice requested the splitting up of Google's ad tech empire.</li></ul>

Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

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