Oakley's City Council voted 4-0 on Aug. 11 to introduce a pilot program allowing up to 10 short-term rental units in the Downtown Specific Plan area along Main Street, reducing the initial proposal of…
Asana completed a massive migration off the testing framework Enzyme in two weeks using AI, a project that would otherwise have been postponed, according to The Pulse, a series covering Big Tech and s…
Airbnb Inc. (ABNB) stock is trading near a 52-week high at $183, up 35% year to date, after the company reported strong second-quarter 2026 results with revenue climbing 17% to $3.6 billion and adjust…
AI agents will increasingly face credentialing requirements to access online services, according to a commentary by an unnamed author citing Scott Belsky's concept of 'favored agents.' The piece sugge…
Airbnb is hiring a Staff Platform Manager for its Conversational Products team, offering $200k–240k/yr, to own the platform that powers its AI Assistant for guest and host support. The role involves d…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 50 fellows selected for its inaugural 8-week Talent Engineer Fellowship, an AI-focused program for talent leaders building AI-native recruiting systems. The co…
Chinese AI platforms from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba are undercutting US rivals with API prices as low as $0.14 per million input tokens versus over $5 for Claude Opus, a 35x difference, promp…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its flagship, topping benchmarks, but developers on Hacker News are asking for the older Opus 4.8 back, citing that the new model stops asking cla…
Airbnb is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Trust Frontier AI team in San Francisco, CA, with a salary range of $200k–235k/yr. The role involves building specialized models, AI agents,…
Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre reported that AI demand and adoption are fueling a travel booking stock boom, with shares of Trivago (TRVG), Airbnb (ABNB), Expedia (EXPE), Delta Air…
Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that generates GraphQL mock responses from an LLM at request time, marking the third public attempt in six months after Airbnb's @generateMock dire…
The next AI winners may be travel companies using AI to cut costs and boost productivity, not just chipmakers like Nvidia or Micron, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. Airbnb reports that nearly 4…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said AI now writes 60% of the company's new code and has cut concept-to-launch time by as much as 60%, helping Airbnb post $3.6 billion in second-quarter revenue. Chesky told C…
Airbnb is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Traffic Intelligence team, offering $212k–265k/yr, to build end-to-end traffic classification ML systems that distinguish legitimate automati…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said Silicon Valley needs to build more consumer-friendly AI products to change Americans' negative perceptions, noting that 159 of 175 companies in the latest Y Combinator bat…
Landlords using AI to over-enhance holiday let photos risk legal action under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act and Advertising Standards Agency rules, warns Alex Poplawska, an associ…
DX Annual 2027 will expand to two cities, with events in San Francisco on May 6, 2027, and London on September 23, 2027, following the inaugural event that drew 500 senior engineering leaders from Mic…
Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said the current AI boom is the fourth special period in computing history and 'bigger than the other three combined,' predicting that one-person companies could…
Airbnb reported that its AI assistant resolved nearly 45% of guest issues without a human agent in Q2 2026, contributing to a 16% year-over-year reduction in customer-support cost per booking. The com…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky publicly confirmed for the first time that he is working on an AI lab, though he declined to provide details. The company reported Q2 2026 revenue of $3.6 billion, up 17% year …