News
United won’t let your AI chatbot book flights for you
- Newsrooms
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
3 in the 3 before
Emerging
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 85% of the past week’s 3928 stories, and number 29 of 313 in Tech.Why it’s moving
United Airlines is restricting unauthorized third-party AI agents from booking or managing travel through its platforms and distribution channels, citing risks to customer data, unintended transactions and compliance with FAA and DOT rules. Travelers can still use AI for general research, but United
The Independent didn’t include a summary, so this is Independent Journal Review’s, from its report on the same story.2
The story so far
5 newsroomsEmerging- Reports
- 6
- Newsrooms and sources
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (3 in the last three hours, 3 in the three before).
First with it: Independent Journal Review, 28 min before anyone else.
Reported by 5 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 5
- Over
- 3.5 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.8 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 5:21am AEDT | Independent Journal Review | 1 |
| 5:50am AEDT | Bloomberg | 2 |
| 7:09am AEDT | Engadget | 3 |
| 7:34am AEDT | The Independent | 4 |
| 8:54am AEDT | The Verge | 5 |
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Independent Journal Review
Engadget
The Verge
Independent Journal Review
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Engadget
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