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Revolutâs Travel Distribution Play Faces a U.S. Test (opens the original)
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Revolutâs push into travel distribution was built to keep customers inside its financial ecosystem. Europe gave it a proving ground. Now its U.S. banking push is on track to help it break open a new travel market. Revolut, a London-based digital banking platform, has turned travel payments into a distribution business in Europe. Now, with conditional approval of a U.S. banking license, Revolut is preparing to bring that same financial and travel strategy to the United States. The company opera
Kayak Co-Founders Launch Lola â Booking Holdings' New AI Assistant: Exclusive (opens the original)
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Booking Holdings has spent years trying to stitch a trip together across separate apps. Lola wagers one assistant built from scratch, with a membership model and human concierge service, can finally hold it together. Lola is not yet another AI feature inside Booking.com, but an AI assistant that acts more like an OTA itself â built to carry a traveler from an open-ended idea to a booked trip in one chat. Launching Tuesday, it is the brainchild of Kayak co-founders Steve Hafner and Paul English
Instinct's App Is Fueled by Travel â Founder Says It's Half of Volume (opens the original)
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Instinct got travel's attention by handling bookings via text message. Now the real question is whether it can turn that volume into revenue â and travel may be the test case. Travel accounts for half of all transaction volume flowing through Instinct, according to founder Noah Shinn, putting travel at the center of one of Silicon Valley's fastest-rising agentic AI assistants. The invite-only bot has hit a billion dollars a year or more in transaction volume, he said in a podcast released Mond
Expedia Cuts 58 Roles in Latest Layoff Round (opens the original)
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Expedia filed a WARN notice in Washington eliminating 58 jobs, including executive positions and data science roles. The reorganization reached Illinois and Florida too. Expedia is cutting 58 roles in Seattle, according to a Washington WARN notice filed this week, with the layoffs set to take place between November 21 and December 1. The notice details where some reductions are landing: It lists several senior roles, including an SVP position that Skift previously reported in August. Of 31 total
Brian Chesky Commits to Launching an AI Agent in 2027 (opens the original)
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Airbnb has talked for years about becoming an AI concierge. Now Brian Chesky has put a 2027 date on it — and he says the interface won’t look like a typical chatbot. Airbnb will launch its own AI agent next year, CEO Brian Chesky said at Skift Global Forum on Wednesday, putting a firm 2027 timetable on an ambition he has discussed publicly for years. “I’ve said this, and now you can hold me to a statement: Next year we will launch our agent,” Chesky said. He added that the new interface would be
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