Google Blocks Rollout of AI Chatbot Bard in Canada

Google Blocks Rollout of AI Chatbot Bard in Canada
A Google sign at the company's office in San Francisco, Calif., on April 12, 2023. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo
Matthew Horwood
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Canada is one of the few countries in the world that does not have access to Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot Bard, as the company’s war of words with the federal government over the Online News Act drags on.

Google announced in a blog post on July 13 that it was expanding Bard to 230 countries and territories, but Canada is absent from that list. Other countries that have been left out include Russia, China, and North Korea.