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United Airlines bans AI travel agents from booking or managing trips
- Newsrooms
- 9
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 9 newsrooms by 8:17pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 96% of the past week’s 4243 stories, and number 12 of 334 in Tech.
1The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
NZ Herald didn’t include a summary, so this is TechCrunch’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: United Airlines
United Airlines, Inc. is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It operates an extensive domestic and international route network across the United States and to destinations on six continents.4
The story so far
9 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 10
- Newsrooms and sources
- 9
- Last 3 hours
- 0
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (0 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: Independent Journal Review, 28 min before anyone else.
Reported by 9 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
|---|---|
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 0 |
| Wed | 0 |
| Thu | 7 |
| Today | 3 |
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 9
The Independent
The New York Times
Bloomberg
Independent Journal Review
Engadget
The Verge
Digital Trends
TechCrunch
Independent Journal Review
Bloomberg
Engadget
The Independent
The Verge
The New York Times
Digital Trends
TechCrunch
NZ Herald