🤖 Gemini turns Maps into your AI copilot

Your map app just learned how to hold a conversation.

Google Maps is integrating Gemini AI into its navigation core, letting users ask open-ended questions about routes, landmarks, or local spots and get smart, conversational answers in real time. Instead of static directions, Gemini fuses Maps’ geospatial data with local reviews and web knowledge to act like a “friend who’s a local expert in the passenger seat.”

Gemini now powers everything from restaurant recommendations along a route to proactive traffic alerts that reroute you before delays hit. It even understands visual cues, guiding drivers by landmarks rather than distances, all grounded in Google’s vast place datasets to avoid AI “hallucinations.”

The update makes Maps less of a tool and more of a travel companion, blurring the line between navigation and personal assistant.

Soon, the road ahead might not just be mapped, it might start talking back.

Tinder turns to AI and your photos to reignite love

Tinder’s next matchmaker isn’t human, it’s an algorithm studying your life through photos.

After nine straight quarters of subscriber decline, Tinder’s parent company Match Group is betting on a new AI feature called Chemistry, which asks users personal questions and if granted permission, analyzes their Camera Roll to infer hobbies and personality traits. It’s already in pilot tests across New Zealand and Australia, with a global rollout planned for 2026.

The company says AI will make matches feel more “compatible,” but the tradeoff is data intimacy. Tinder’s system could soon know more about how you live than the people you date. Even Match admits it expects a short-term $14 million hit from the testing phase.

It’s a bold play for a generation growing wary of apps and privacy alike. Love, it seems, is once again becoming a data problem dressed as a feeling.

Giga raises $61M to rewire customer service with voice AI

Customer service may soon sound less robotic. San Francisco startup Giga just raised $61 million from Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator, and Nexus to build voice-based AI agents that can replace call centers at scale. Already working with DoorDash, Giga says it can deploy enterprise-ready voice AI in under two weeks and handle live, multi-step conversations faster than a human.

The company’s edge lies in orchestration: its AI listens, reasons, checks data, and speaks, all within half a second. That speed, combined with multilingual models, lets Giga sidestep the accent and bias traps that still plague many rivals.

Giga is now expanding into finance and health care, running on clients’ private clouds to keep data sealed. If it works, compliance calls and fraud checks could become fully automated, with AI that sounds more like a colleague than a script.

Every few years, a new layer of infrastructure quietly reshapes how we communicate. Voice may be the next one.

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