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Booking.com renews partnership with UEFA national team competitions

The world's leading online travel booking platform will continue as the official accommodation and attractions partner, helping fans plan and experience their football journeys across UEFA ...

Google’s AI Mode Adds Flight Tracking and Hotel Booking

Google announced updates to AI Mode, its conversational search experience, enabling users to track flight prices, book hotels, and view flight and hotel costs in points or miles. AI Mode can now show options and latest prices from more than 300 airlines and travel sites, allow users to build itineraries or track prices with email alerts, and complete hotel bookings via a “Continue on Google” flow that uses partners and Google Pay. Flight price tracking is available in over 180 countries, and hotel booking has begun rolling out in the U.S. in English with multiple major hotel chains and travel sites as partners.

• Google updated AI Mode to let users track flight prices, book hotels, and see costs in points or miles.
• AI Mode displays prices from more than 300 airlines and travel sites and can build itineraries or track prices with email alerts.
• Flight price tracking in AI Mode is available in more than 180 countries.

Study: AI visibility often diverges from SEO rankings

Fractl analyzed how three large language models (GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Claude Sonnet 4.6) referenced brands across eight industries and compared those references to traditional SEO metrics from Ahrefs. While more than 90% of brands showed alignment between search authority and AI visibility, notable outliers existed: about 5% of brands (471) were underrepresented in model responses and about 4% (377) overperformed relative to their SEO footprint. Only 11% of brands were referenced by all three models, and model-specific recall patterns (e.g., Claude favoring SaaS/insurance, Gemini favoring travel/healthcare) create measurement and strategy challenges. The study concludes brands should measure AI recall separately, strengthen third-party corroboration, and fix categorization signals to improve AI recall.

• Fractl analyzed 4,320 model responses and more than 8,500 unique brand references across eight industries.
• About 5% of brands (471) were underexposed in LLMs despite high domain ratings and organic traffic.
• About 4% of brands (377) overperformed in AI references relative to their traditional SEO metrics.

Travelport appoints Naomi Hahn as Chief Marketing and Commercial Operations Officer

New appointment brings together the commercial engine that powers Travelport’s growth, creating a connected, data-driven and customer-focused organization.

Cognizant, Anthropic Expand Partnership to Embed Claude

Cognizant has expanded its strategic partnership with Anthropic and become a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network, embedding Anthropic’s Claude across Cognizant’s industry platforms and internal engineering workflows. Cognizant says it is deploying Claude in production across regulated industries (manufacturing, life sciences, insurance) with measurable outcomes — for example, reducing contract review time and improving extraction accuracy — while scaling training and certification through its Frontier workforce model. The collaboration emphasizes domain context, delivery scale, and operationalizing LLM capabilities for enterprise production use cases.

• Cognizant announced an expanded strategic partnership with Anthropic and became a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network.
• Cognizant is embedding Claude across its business and engineering platforms (including Flowsource, Neuro®AI Engineering and Neuro®IT Ops) and using Claude in client deployments in manufacturing, life sciences and insurance.
• Cognizant reported production results: a contract-intelligence system reduced contract review time by up to 40% and achieved extraction accuracy above 88%; an insurance risk-navigation tool saved underwriters roughly eight hours per week.

Travelport and Turkish Airlines sign multi-year distribution agreement including NDC

The agreement extends a partnership dating back to 1993, with NDC content set to follow, offering agencies access to fares and Travelport’s advanced merchandising capabilities…