An interview with Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who calls AI "a growth opportunity", as she prepares the online travel company to face potential disruption from AI (@stephistacey / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

$YOU partnered with Expedia to let travelers buy CLEAR+ and CLEAR Concierge during the booking process. The U.S. rollout will integrate CLEAR services across Expedia flight discovery, shopping and trip management, with One Key members getting tiered pricing.

From Arctic archipelagos to tropical hideaways, Expedia’s 2026 Island Hot List reveals where travelers are searching for their next luxury island vacation. See the full list: Photo: Getty Images

Join us for our Building Agents with Agents Roadshow 🏎️ in Sunnyvale next Thursday, August 27th. RSVP: - Keynote from @hwchase17 on the state of agent development and trending architectures - Hear from Mani Najmabadi, Director of Machine Learning at Expedia on how they’re building agents - TWO hands-on workshops: learning how to build with agent harnesses (Deep Agents) and improving your agent with agents (LangSmith Engine) - Meet other frontier agent builders. This event gets packed across our different stops around the country! 🌎

Next stop on the LangSmith Roadshow: Silicon Valley. ✅ A half-day, hands-on look at LangSmith Engine ✅ Hear from @hwchase17, @Expedia, + more ✅ Get hands-on experience building + deploying RSVP today:

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