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Smartphone users will be able to access live traffic reports via Bing Maps and get a slew of important notifications about suggested routes.

A lot of work must be done before AI gets to where it needs to be, ahead of replacing humans in workplaces.

Your phone comes with a launcher, typically created by the manufacturer, but you don't have to stick with it. There are several speedy ones that are great.

The latest Bing Chat dev update includes a note that users will now get better chat responses if they are asking for directions. Also, mobile users can get access to live traffic updates.

Because I ... did not. Even now, I’m not 100 percent sure what it is. There’s a website called Bing Maps, okay, yes, but then the app really just wants to tell me about Microsoft Traffic. And now there’s a way to get Bing Maps info in the Microsoft Start app, which has a feature called Commute that is evidently powered by Bing Maps. Microsoft Start, of course, looks remarkably like the Bing app. Which has mapping stuff in it, but isn’t exactly a mapping app. I don’t get it either. But ...

Microsoft Publishes AI-generated Article Recommending Ottawa Food Bank as Tourist Destination Microsoft Publishes AI-generated Article Recommending Ottawa

Life is already difficult enough. Consider going into it on an empty stomach

The article listed a food bank as the third option in the list coming off insensitive.

"Life is already difficult enough. Consider going into it on an empty stomach," the article wrote of the Ottawa Food Bank.

Tech author Paris Marx noticed that Microsoft had listed the food bank at number 3 on a list of top recommendations for Ottawa visitors, sitting behind the...