Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

Google Maps is one of the company's core products, which means it hasn't escaped the shift to Gemini. There will be more opportunities to converse with a robot in Google Maps starting today, but there's also a new navigation experience on the way. The revamped navigation isn't as explicitly focused on the AI revolution, but Google stresses Gemini is still key to making it work.

The latest AI shift in Maps is called Ask Maps, and you can probably guess what it does just from its title. Ask...