Google wants Maps to become less of a navigation app and more of a personal assistant.
New AI capabilities in Ask Maps can help users find restaurants, prepare food orders, compare hotels, discover events, and surface personalized recommendations using context from connected Google services. The experience can carry out several steps on a user’s behalf, but Google still requires people to approve purchases, reservations, and other final actions.
The move is also the latest sign of Google’s broader strategy to make Gemini the intelligence layer across its products rather than a standalone chatbot.
After embedding its AI into services such as…
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