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Google Maps redesign introduces AI-powered conversational guidance using Gemini technology.

App provides hands-free directions, landmark cues, and recommendations for nearby places.

AI safeguards aim to prevent navigation errors, addressing hallucination concerns.

Rollout will reach iPhone and Android users, reaching over 2 billion people globally.

Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the passenger’s seat.

Fueled by Google’s Gemini AI technology, the world’s most popular navigation app will become a more conversational companion as part of a redesign announced Wednesday.

The hands-free experience is meant to turn Google Maps into something more like an insightful passenger able to direct a driver to a destination w

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