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 Message 1400 
 Mike Powell to All 
 Chatbots, 23andMe Data 
 20 May 25 08:45:00 
 
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From TLDR 2025-05-20

 NLWEB IS MICROSOFT'S PROJECT TO BRING MORE CHATBOTS TO WEB PAGES (2
MINUTE READ) [5] 

 Microsoft's NLWeb project enables websites to provide a
conversational interface for users with a few lines of code, the AI
model of their choice, and their own data. Sites using NLWeb can make
their content discoverable and accessible to platforms that support
MCP. NLWeb could play a similar role to HTML for the agentic web and
allow users to interact directly with web content in a rich, semantic
manner. The NLWeb project started with OpenAI, which was working on an
early version last November. 

 23ANDME AND ITS USER DATA WILL SOON BELONG TO A PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT
(2 MINUTE READ) [8] 

 23andMe will be sold to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256 million.
The sale includes 23andMe's Total Health and Research Services
business and biobank of customer data and genetic samples. 23andMe
says that customer data is anonymized and stored genetic samples are
destroyed when users delete their accounts, but it is unclear how much
information is retained. Regeneron's co-founder said that the purchase
will further the company's large-scale genetics research into future
drugs and treatments. 23andMe has collected genetic samples and data
from more than 15 million customers. 

 MICROSOFT CTO KEVIN SCOTT ON HOW AI CAN SAVE THE WEB, NOT DESTROY IT
(56 MINUTE READ) [24] 

 A transcript of an interview with Microsoft's Chief Technology
Officer, Kevin Scott, where he talks about the future of search,
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, Scott's feelings about AI's
capabilities scaling up over time, and his thoughts on AI as a
creative tool. 

Links:
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[5] https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/nlweb-is-microsofts-project-to-bring-more
-chatbots-to-webpages/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
[8] https://www.theverge.com/news/669548/23andme-bankruptcy-auction-regeneron-p
urchase?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
[24] https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/669409/microsoft
-cto-kevin-scott-interview-ai-natural-language-search-openai?utm_source=tldrnew
sletter

 -- https://tldr.tech/tech

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