Google is ready to open the Bard floodgates, at least to English speakers around the world. After two months of testing, access to the AI-powered chatbot no longer is gated by a waitlist. Google announced the move at its Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, a week after Microsoft removed the waitlist for its competing Bing chatbot. In addition to opening Bard up to people in 180 English-speaking countries and territories, it added Japanese and Korean chat abilities as part of a 40-language ...