As artificial intelligence creeps into more and more of our daily lives, you’re going to hear the term “agentic features” a lot. Unlike a more generic chat bot, these features refer to AI capabilities that allow a system to act autonomously, make multi-step plans, use external tools and complete complex workflows with minimal human supervision.

And it sounds pretty damn helpful, right? Google announced on Thursday that its Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels and find event tickets. The tech giant is also bringing Personal Intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing the AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a user’s Gmail and Google Calendar.

Engadget reports that Google is partnering with Toast, Square and Uber Eats to facilitate food ordering. The first two partners will be available at launch, with Uber Eats to follow at a later date.

Outside of food ordering, the same integration also allows Ask Maps to help you with booking a hotel for your next trip. You can describe your booking criteria to the chatbot, including considerations like budget, room size and nearby attractions, and Ask Maps will try to fit a hotel that fits those requirements. Apparently, the chatbot will compare prices and check availability in real time. From there, you can click through to the websites of Google's partners to book your stay. This integration also works for live events, so you can ask the chatbot about comedy shows and concerts in your area.

And with the addition of Personal Intelligence, TechCrunch points out that Maps will be able to give you personalized answers to questions about upcoming flights, dinner reservations, events and more. For example, you could ask, “What time will I land in Vancouver on my upcoming flight?” or “Can you recommend where to eat and what to do near my hotel?” Ask Maps will then pull information from a user’s emails and calendar to provide tailored responses. It’s also worth noting that Personal Intelligence is off by default.

President Donald Trump took another stab at restricting automatic citizenship for people born in the United States after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier attempt. In two executive orders signed Thursday, Trump reached for different legal maneuvers to test the limits of the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

The first order said children would be ineligible if born to “alien enemies,” members of foreign terrorist organizations, or foreign lobbyists. The second order said children of people who fraudulently request tourist visas for the purpose of giving birth in the U.S. would not become citizens. Trump harshly criticized the Supreme Court’s June decision reaffirming that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil, including the children of undocumented immigrants, striking down his executive order from the first day of his second term.

Of course, this renews one of his signature policies, but he new orders will no doubt be challenged in court. Plus, U.S. law already bans getting a tourist visa “for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States.” And Axios reports that most estimates about the number of children who've been the result of birth tourism range in the low thousands.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new kind of flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, said the manufacturer, Moderna.

The shot, named mFlusiva, is currently intended for adults who are 50 and older. Other brands of flu shots already have begun arriving in pharmacies ahead of fall vaccination season, and Moderna said this week that it expects some of its new version to be available soon at select retailers. (While there already are multiple flu vaccine options in the U.S., including three specifically recommended for people age 65 or older, tens of thousands of Americans die from influenza every year and people our parents’ age are among the most vulnerable.)

Flu vaccines must be updated annually to best match circulating strains of the virus. Vaccines made with the Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology are faster to manufacturer than other types, and experts say this additional option might help if the shape-shifting flu virus mutates in a way that requires suddenly brewing new doses.