Tech
United Airlines Blocks A.I. Agents From Booking Flights
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 newsrooms by 2:40pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 57% of the past week’s 4189 stories, and number 87 of 330 in Tech.Part of a bigger story
Airlines: 2 developments since Thu 12 Nov.Why it’s moving
- ScoopThe New York Times had it 9 hr before anyone else.
1The carrier said that to protect customers’ information and comply with regulations, it was barring the digital assistants from logging into accounts and managing reservations.
In The New York Times’s words.2
The bigger story: Airlines
2 developments since Thu 12 Nov.
United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, citing cybersecurity risks
You’re here3 newsrooms. Linked by Airlines, United, agent, concerns
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 3
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 0
First with it: The New York Times, 8 hr 44 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 18 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 18 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15am AEDT | The New York Times | 1 |
| 6:59pm AEDT | Digital Trends | 2 |
| 4:17am AEDT | TechCrunch | 3 |
Bigger than 94% of Tech stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 18 hr; a typical Tech story that gets there takes 7.8 hr.
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 3 newsrooms by 2:40pm AEDT (3 most likely), and 3 to 4 by Sat, 14 Nov, 8:40am AEDT. 3 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 3 | 3 |
| In 1 hours (9:40am AEDT) | 3 to 3 | 3 |
| In 3 hours (11:40am AEDT) | 3 to 3 | 3 |
| In 6 hours (2:40pm AEDT) | 3 to 3 | 3 |
| In 12 hours (8:40pm AEDT) | 3 to 3 | 3 |
| In 24 hours (8:40am AEDT) | 3 to 4 | 3 |
The New York Times
Digital Trends
TechCrunch