Airbnb shares jumped roughly 15% on Friday after the company reported second-quarter revenue of $3.61 billion, up 17% year over year, and adjusted earnings per share of $1.27, beating the $1.26 analys…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company will spend more on AI tokens this year than forecasted because the ROI is strong, following a second-quarter earnings report that sent shares up as much as 17%…
Airbnb Inc. co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI has cut the time from concept to launch for key features by as much as 60% and increased the number of features shipped by nearly 80% year-over-year…
Airbnb published a playbook for evaluating generative AI at scale, recommending teams read roughly 100 outputs and traces before building evaluators, then layer programmatic checks, LLM judges, and hu…
Fora Travel, the AI-powered travel agent platform, has appointed Alanna Gregory as its first chief marketing officer, effective immediately. Gregory, who previously served as VP of marketing at Block,…
Octane Security has discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox's streamOptimized VMDK parser, assigned CVE-2026-60161, which allows a malicious virtual appliance to write up to 6…
The House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Select Committee on China have launched a joint investigation into American companies using AI models built by Chinese firms, including DoorDash,…
Airbnb's engineering team reports that shipping reliable AI features requires dedicating a significant portion of project effort to evaluation, as detailed in a company write-up on eval-driven develop…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the trajectory of Chinese AI models 'dystopian' as security testing showed DeepSeek models have a 94% jailbreak success rate, compared to heavily invested US models. …
Rocket CMO Jonathan Mildenhall is replacing the traditional marketing funnel with a strategy that serves both human audiences and AI machines, arguing that the old model fails to address the need for …
Uber laid off 10% of its customer service staff, part of its Community Operations team, and plans to replace them with AI, according to an internal memo viewed by Bloomberg. Megha Yethadka, Uber's VP …
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand pushed GPU capacity to its limits, the company announced on X. The model, released on Friday as a…
Businesses including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are experimenting with cheaper Chinese AI models from startups like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek as costs for U.S. rivals such as OpenAI, Google, and Ant…
Moonshot, a Chinese AI company, has released Kimi K3, an AI model that the company claims matches the performance of leading American models, marking a significant step in China's AI development. The …
Tech stocks led a steep global sell-off as investors lost faith in the AI chip trade, with U.S. futures down 0.66% following declines in Asia and Europe. Chipmaker TSMC fell 2.63% and Netflix dropped …
Hackers hijacked Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's X account and posted an AI-generated thread about crypto tokenization that amassed over 700,000 views before being deleted, according to Fortune. The thread,…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's X account was hijacked on Monday to post an AI-generated thread promoting real-world asset tokenization that accumulated over 700,000 views before deletion, according to a so…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's X account was hijacked on Monday in a cyberattack that posted an AI-generated thread promoting real-world asset tokenization, a source with knowledge of the situation told Fo…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol achieved the highest score on ReactBench v1 at 43.1%, a new benchmark for coding agents on realistic React tasks, while Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 scored 41.2% at 6.3 times the co…
Travel platforms Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia are investing billions in AI customer support to automate routine queries, but disputes over cancellations and refunds remain a challenge. Airbnb uses…