Google Maps gets Gemini for conversational navigation & traffic reporting on Android, iOS

In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it’s now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS. Google equates this “hands-free, conversational driving experience” to having a “knowledgeable friend in the passenger seat who can confidently help you get where you’re going.”

Google Maps rolling out landmark-based navigation, Gemini-powered Lens

Gemini is replacing Google Assistant in Google Maps navigation. On Android and iOS, you’ll see the Gemini spark in the top-right corner.

Agentic AI to fore as Amazon sues Perplexity over purchases via Comet:

Perplexity previously received a cease and desist letter from Amazon which is suing it in a San Francisco court to stop using its Comet agents to purchase via its site.

The major AI players see a future where our AI ‘agents’ will do our shopping for us, based on our purchasing history, preferences, pricing and online reviews. Just last week, Paypal struck a deal with OpenAI to enable instant payment within ChatGPT, seen as a boost to its agentic shopping ambitions.

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