Google Maps AI expands to order food, book hotels, and check live transit

TL;DR
Google Maps’ AI assistant, Ask Maps, now offers broader agentic capabilities such as ordering food, finding hotels and events, and giving route-aware suggestions via Gemini's Personal Intelligence. It can factor in dietary needs and saved places, auto-add items to your cart, and will work with Square and Toast today (Uber Eats coming soon). Real-time transit updates and conversational location contributions are also included, with rollout expanding from the US to other countries.
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- You can now ask Google Maps’ AI to order food for you The Verge
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- Google’s Ask Maps Lets You Get More Done Conversationally, Thanks to AI CNET
- Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings TechCrunch
- Google Maps can order takeout for you on your way home now Yahoo Tech
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