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On today's Skift Daily Briefing, Sarah Dandashy breaks down why the Gulf's search-to-booking gap signals a demand delay rather than a demand collapse, how Brand USA is rebuilding its Canadian strategy from scratch on a dramatically reduced budget, and why Expedia's new MCP server is the unglamorous infrastructure play that could quietly reshape how AI books travel.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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A growing number of companies have pledged to match the government's $1,000 contribution for eligible employees' children's Trump Accounts. Read more ›
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Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real. Read more ›
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A fresh Android 17 update just arrived on your Google Pixel phone as Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6. This latest update continues to bring us closer to a stable build that really isn’t expected until September. Does Google have some other plans for QPR1? I say that because we only got Beta 5 a week... Read the original post: Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 Update For Pixel Phones Just Dropped Read more ›
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Wolbachia bacteria could offer an environmentally-friendly way of controlling mosquitoes and the many diseases they spread. Read more ›
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The company's been failing to patch a Hide My Email vulnerability for more than a year now. Read more ›
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Samsung could use its existing wearable ecosystem to give its first smart glasses an edge. Read more ›
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The boot loop cure is set to arrive sometime this month. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's SpaceX may be aiming to compete with Apple in the future. The company showed investors a prototype for a "handset-like device designed to reshape how humans interact with artificial intelligence," according to The Wall Street Journal. The device is described as being slimmer than an iPhone, with a "sleek design." It runs a proprietary operating system, has a Qualcomm chipset, and integrates AI tech from SpaceX subsidiary xAI.... Read more ›
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Elon Musk says a report about a SpaceX AI phone prototype is "utterly false." The report, published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, says SpaceX showed off a "handset-like prototype" to some investors before launching its record-breaking initial public offering in June. The device was "slimmer than an iPhone," and they were told it […] Read more ›
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A rumored SpaceX device could offer a way to access xAI's models without having to use a smartphone. Read more ›
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Qualcomm's latest data center push centers around High Bandwidth Compute (HBC), which aims to address the ever-increasing costs of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Read more ›
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You might one day be able to chat with Grok like Captain Kirk hailing the USS Enterprise. Would you really want to, though? Read more ›
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AleRunner writes: The first fully synthetic cell ("SpudCell") has been created in the Department of Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Strictly speaking, it's described as a "cell-like system constructed entirely from known chemical components that can perform a complete cell cycle." It is able to replicate, but only for approximately five generations. The key advance is that the cell is "built entirely bottom-up from individually purified, non-living components," although... Read more ›
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The Razer Iskur V2 NewGen gaming chair builds on an already decent seat by adding an impressive bunch of new features to help justify its premium price. Read more ›
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Marc Blazer is building one of the cleanest anti-Airbnb points of view in travel: real, deeply designed homes for design-literate travelers who want taste, context, and character over inventory. The argument is persuasive. The hard question is whether it survives contact with growth. Read more ›
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Visa-free access may be bringing visitors to China, but Trip.com believes the real opportunity lies in building the infrastructure — AI, payments and local suppliers — to keep them coming. Read more ›
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China's regulatory push is no longer just a compliance issue for Trip.com Group. It's now influencing how the company operates, and its near-term financial outlook. Read more ›
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Skift Transatlantic Summit returns for its second edition this October in Dublin, convening senior travel leaders to examine how geopolitics, shifting demand, and AI are reshaping the world's most valuable travel corridor. Read more ›
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Posadas called its own luxury-heavy signings a ‘red flag,’ and is rebalancing as a soft quarter hit its luxury hotels hardest. Read more ›
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The largest tourism-real-estate deals increasingly arrive with a demand for exceptional treatment: special investor status, rewritten protections, consent bypassed. Albania is just the loudest case; the governance failure is the same everywhere. Read more ›
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Is Avios becoming the tail that wags the airline? IAG Loyalty wants to make a billion euros, and many of the levers it's pulling to get there have nothing to do with flying. Read more ›
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Ten weeks of data show remarkably strong demand from business and leisure travelers. It's not just a World Cup bump. Read more ›
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Apple is turning Wallet from a place to store hotel keys into a live trip surface. Disney shows how far that could go when a pass starts carrying more of the trip. Read more ›
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The 2026 World Cup was supposed to be a story about soccer. Instead, it became a story about America. Read more ›
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