Overview
- On Thursday, August 6, 2026, Google expanded Ask Maps with agentic features that can start multi‑step tasks such as ordering food, comparing hotels, and surfacing event links while broadening English availability to 150+ countries.
- Agentic food ordering is rolling out in the U.S. with Square and Toast integrations and Uber Eats coming soon, and Ask Maps will add requested items into a merchant’s cart for the user to review before they complete payment.
- Ask Maps now offers opt‑in Personal Intelligence that can securely read Gmail to factor reservations and flights into suggestions, and Google says Calendar support is coming; the feature also resumes past conversations when history is enabled.
- Square announced that sellers who use its Dashboard can automatically sync menus, hours, and locations into Ask Maps so restaurants can appear directly in AI ordering flows with no extra setup or fees.
- Google frames the changes as a staged shift toward task‑oriented AI in Maps, but the company preserves user controls and limits agentic actions to starting flows rather than autonomously completing purchases as rollout and partner coverage expand.