The Verge corrects report on Google’s Gemini rollout after misidentifying which product received new AI capabilities

The Verge has issued a correction to its October 23 report, “Google Earth’s expanded AI features make it easier to ask it questions,” clarifying that it was Google’s Geospatial Reasoning framework — not Google Earth itself — that gained new Gemini capabilities.

The article, written by Elissa Welle, described Google’s latest efforts to link multiple Earth AI models — including satellite imagery, weather forecasts and population data — so users in its “trusted tester” programme could analyse environmental risks or identify infrastructure vulnerabilities through chat queries.

In its initial version, the piece stated that Google Earth had received direct integration with Gemini, implying that the conversational AI model was being built into the mapping platform. In fact, the update applied to Google’s Geospatial Reasoning framework, a separate system that connects datasets used by Google Earth and other geospatial tools. The Verge corrected the text and headline later that day.

That clarification matters because the misstatement conflated two distinct Google products with very different scopes. Suggesting that Gemini was now embedded directly into Google Earth overstated the product’s current functionality and risked misleading professional users and developers about the tool’s availability, scope, and privacy implications.

The Verge amended its article to confirm that Gemini now powers Google’s Geospatial Reasoning framework, which supports AI-assisted analysis across several Google Earth-linked datasets, rather than Google Earth itself.