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Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI.
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- Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that gives developers a granular, consistent way to control what AI agents can do (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
- OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-10-04