Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini questions about locations and even to plan trips on your behalf.

The feature allows users to interact conversationally with the app, finding places such as a charging station, or available tennis court.

In the past, Google Maps would struggle with hyper-specific questions like “where can I charge my phone without having to ...

Google Maps will depend more heavily on artificial intelligence to help people figure out where they want to go and the best way to get there as part of a major redesign unveiled Thursday.

Google is adding more AI to its maps service as part of a broader effort to differentiate Gemini from potential competition and to keep users on its products for longer. With more than 2 billion ...

New research has found that Google Cloud API keys, typically designated as project identifiers for billing purposes, could be abused to authenticate to sensitive Gemini endpoints and access private ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Is Here, Beats Rivals in Key AI Benchmarks Google says its newest model is designed to tackle your 'hardest challenges.' Early benchmarks indicate that 3.1 Pro beats ChatGPT, ...

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