Waymo plans to integrate Gemini AI assistant into its self-driving taxi fleet.

Google's parent company Alphabet's autonomous driving department, Waymo, is preparing to allow its self-driving taxis to speak. Recent discoveries by security researcher Jane Manchun Wong suggest that this self-driving company is internally testing the integration of Google's Gemini AI, aimed at providing passengers with a "personal companion" service. This leaked information comes from the code of the Waymo mobile app, which contains a 1,200-line long "metadata" that clearly defines how the AI, internally known as "Waymo Rider Assistant," should behave during journeys.