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Accor's AI strategy spans discovery, distribution, loyalty, and operations, but its boldest bet is the one focused on people. The company believes automating the invisible half of hotel work is what will let the visible half feel more human.
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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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Only Samsung currently makes its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM, but Huawei may be quietly building its own alternative. Read more ›
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A pharmaceutical empire worth half a trillion dollars cannot be bought, sold, or truly owned—and that structural oddity may be the only thing protecting it from becoming something far more dangerous. Read more ›
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Neuralink, the brain chip startup owned by Elon Musk, is seeing its valuation soar. Investor appetite for Musk's companies is reaching new highs. Read more ›
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Physical media, like CDs, are much more tactile than streaming, but they come with limitations - such as the amount of music that fits on a disc. Read more ›
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Illinois enacted a 0.2% tax on all crypto transactions last month, with the tax taking effect next year. Read more ›
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On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […] Read more ›
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If you're finally ready to cut down those limbs, a full-size chainsaw might not be necessary -- these mini ones from Walmart are on sale and can do the job. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle No. 667 for Wednesday, July 22. Read more ›
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Supermicro said Tuesday it had received new orders worth more than $60 billion in its June quarter, sending its shares up 17% after normal trading hours. The Nvidia server producer made the announcement in a preliminary business update ahead of the company’s official earnings release Aug. 11. It ... Read more ›
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Tesla says it is launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, though it has not shared fleet sizes or whether customers can immediately hail rides. The Verge notes the announcement lands on Tesla earnings day and comes as the company's robotaxi rollout remains far smaller than Elon Musk previously projected, with tracker data showing only a small number of unsupervised vehicles operating in existing cities. From the report: [B]ack... Read more ›
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Amodei was OpenAI's vice president of research before leaving in 2021 to start his own company, Anthropic Read more ›
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Industry leaders argue risk aversion to blame for country’s patchwork rules and slow implementation. Read more ›
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A fresh leak purports to reveal the full specs sheet of both upcoming smartwatches, as well as likely European pricing. Read more ›
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OpenAI said Tuesday that an AI agent it developed went rogue last week and hacked into the systems of AI model repository Hugging Face. OpenAI said that it was testing the agent, powered by its most advanced publicly available model, GPT-5.6 Sol, and other unreleased models to see how well it ... Read more ›
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OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […] Read more ›
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Today’s startup funding tape says something simple but important: venture investors are still writing large checks, but they are putting that money behind bottlenecks, not broad themes. The strongest rounds announced in the past 12 hours clustered around three pressure ... Read more ›
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Accor has been in India for two decades but has been slow to gain traction. Now it's focused on expansion and building out the structure to support the growth. Read more ›
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Travel’s AI investment is concentrated in office work while its demographic labor crisis is concentrated on the front line; the jobs aging fastest remain stubbornly physical. Read more ›
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The CCO-to-CEO pipeline is hardening into a template, boards are dressing exits as retirements, and high-growth markets are importing their turnaround CEOs. One year of moves, mapped by Skift Exec Search. Read more ›
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Minor Hotels didn’t wait out the Iran war in the Gulf. It grew in Oman and Africa instead. Read more ›
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Trading below your own bricks is an open invitation for financial interventions. For PPHE, Whitbread, and Meliá, the question is whether they're targets after Scandic's Dalata deal. Read more ›
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United is betting that it will continue to see high travel demand in the second half of 2026 as it stares down at an additional $6 billion in fuel costs. Read more ›
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The timeshare secret runs best on people who already said yes. So when it gets harder to land first-time buyers, buy someone else's customers. Read more ›
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The airline's frequent flyer program was built to reward spending. JetBlue is using it as a pipeline to finance spending — and letting customers earn points for the privilege of paying interest. Read more ›
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By absorbing Rail Europe, a 5-million-ticket rail seller with 90-plus years of operator ties, Omio is consolidating one of travel's most fragmented, hard-to-book corners — and laying groundwork for when AI agents book trips, not just suggest them. Read more ›
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Distribution is up for grabs, AI is in the core systems, capital has gotten careful, and loyalty is being redefined. Skift Global Forum is where travel decides what to do about it. Read more ›
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