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Expedia Group is an online travel agency offering hotel, flight, car rental, and vacation bookings through brands like Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo.
Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan says AI agents such as Meta's Muse could put up to $10 billion of Apple's App Store revenue at risk. His bank still rates Apple a Buy at $370, and the figure is a ceiling that fills only if shoppers hand their purchases to agents at scale.
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Planet Fitness is down 20% since Meta's Muse agent launched Sept. 8, against 7% for upscale gym Life Time. The gap suggests investors already sort easy cancellations from sticky memberships, though Jim Cramer calls the 'consumer inertia' sell-off too broad.
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The layout that went live on Tuesday gives price comparison sites three slots before any single hotel appears, and every measurement of what that does to bookings so far belongs to Google, which designed the page.
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Meta launched its Muse agent with national ads as Shopify opened checkout to it and Amazon said it would block it. Expedia's shares fell even after it integrated with Muse, as investors priced the risk that agents cut booking sites out of the sale.
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Almost every announcement at the hour-long keynote tied back to Meta's personal agent, including glasses from $449 and a Mac that Muse can operate while the user is away. The metaverse barely came up.
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Amazon kept Meta's Muse out of its cart with a line in its own terms of service. Investors are already pricing which other intermediaries could say the same thing to an agent.
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Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, has published more than 300 posts on X since Muse launched on September 8, announcing partner integrations and amplifying user savings claims, many of them from Meta's own employees.
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Google's AI Mode began completing hotel bookings in the US in late August, with Booking.com, Expedia, Hilton, Marriott and IHG supplying rooms. The published evidence about what goes wrong is one chatbot case from 2022.
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Brussels put a threat worth 5% of worldwide turnover on a 60-day clock, so Google rebuilt its EU results page and is now telling European hoteliers what that cost them, using a traffic figure it has not published.
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US hotel checkout now completes inside AI Mode, with the hotel or travel site left as merchant of record for refunds, disputes and the support desk, while Google takes the conversion event and the partner keeps the cost of what follows.
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