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It’s holiday travel season! Whether you’re visiting family or just dreaming about next year’s big vacation, now is a great time to start planning your next trip. And thanks to our latest AI upgrades, Search can handle some of the heavy lifting: New AI-powered features can help you build the perfect itinerary, find the best deals and turn your plans into bookings.

Build your travel plans with Canvas in AI Mode

Canvas is a tool in AI Mode that gives you a space to organize plans and projects over time. And now, you can use Canvas to build travel plans that are customized for your specific needs. Just tell AI Mode what type of trip you’re planning and the recommendations you’re looking for, then select the option to “Create Canvas.”

Quora has rolled out group chat on Poe, allowing users to collaborate with both AI models and other individuals within a single conversation.

Plus: ‍️ OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 to all ChatGPT users

Sakana AI raised about $135M at a $2.65B post-money valuation in one of Japan’s largest fundraises this year.

Leaked documents obtained by Ed Zitron show that OpenAI paid Microsoft $865.8M in revenue share during the first three quarters of 2025, up from $493.8M in 2024. The figures suggest OpenAI’s revenue-sharing agreement with Microsoft, estimated at 20%, has scaled sharply alongside its revenue growth and compute usage.

Anthropic notes in a blog post that it has been training Claude to have character traits of “even-handedness” since early 2024.

Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout, and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory.

Apple is launching Digital IDs, a feature that allows you to create and store an ID in Apple Wallet using your US passport. In the announcement, Apple says Digital ID acceptance will begin to “roll out first” at TSA checkpoints for domestic travel in over 250 airports across the US.

Google to expand Gemini with Visual Layout and Creative Canvas, enabling inline canvas blocks and news dashboards, plus playable web games.