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OpenAI launches its Google Challenger chat GPT search.

I remember on Shakein, get ready, because it's time for your daily crunch for Friday,

starting with three big headlines.

Google Maps is getting new features powered by Gemini, Google's generative AI model.

On Thursday, the company announced incoming updates that will allow Google Maps users in the U.S.

to tap into AI to help them find new places to visit and answer questions about different locations.

The platform is also getting enhanced navigation

features to help motorists get to their destination by highlighting things like which lane

you're supposed to be in. By bringing Gemini into Maps, Google will be looking to ensure that its

navigation app is better poised to compete with Apple Maps and navigation startups.

In other updates, Google Maps will allow users to get ideas for places to go and things to do simply by asking the service.

For instance, if you have a friend visiting you, you can ask Maps for things to do with friends at night.

Gemini will then serve up a curated list of options such as

checking out a speakeasy or live music. As for the new navigation features, Google is making it

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