Newlyweds Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez spotted on Venice boat ride
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WIRED
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- WIRED
I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible
The latest wave of AI tools claim to take the pain out of booking your next trip. From transport and accommodation to restaurants and attractions, we let AI take the reins to put this to the test. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff/Victoria Turk The worst part of travel is the planning: the faff of finding and booking transport, accommodation, restaurant reservations—the list can feel endless. To help, the latest wave of AI agents, such as OpenAI's Operator and Anthropic's Computer Use claim they can take these dreary, cumbersome tasks from befuddled travelers and do it all for you. But exactly how good are they are digging out the good stuff? What better way to find out than deciding on a last-minute weekend away. I tasked Operator, which is available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, with booking me something budget-friendly, with good food and art, and told it that I'd prefer to travel by train. What's fascinating is that you can actually watch its process in real time—the tool opens a browser window and starts, much as I would, searching for destinations accessible by rail. It scrolls a couple of articles, then offers two suggestions: Paris or Bruges. 'I recently went to Paris,' I type in the chat. 'Let's do Bruges!' Armed with my decision, Operator goes on to look up train times on the Eurostar website and finds a return ticket that will take me to Brussels and includes onward travel within Belgium. I intervene, however, when I see the timings: It selected an early-morning train out on Saturday, and an equally early train back on Sunday—not exactly making the most of the weekend, I point out. It finds a later return option. So far impressed, I wait to double-check my calendar before committing. When I return, however, the session has timed out. Unlike ChatGPT, Operator closes conversations between tasks, and I have to start again from scratch. I feel irrationally slighted, as if my trusty travel assistant has palmed me off to a colleague. Alas, the fares have already changed, and I find myself haggling with the AI: can't it find something cheaper? Tickets eventually selected, I take over to enter my personal and payment details. (I may be trusting AI to blindly send me across country borders, but I'm not giving it my passport information.) Using ChatGPT's Operator to book a train ticket to Bruges. Courtesy of Victoria Turk Trains booked, Operator thinks its job is done. But I'll need somewhere to stay, I remind it—can it book a hotel? It asks for more details and I'm purposefully vague, specifying that it should be comfy and conveniently located. Comparing hotels is perhaps my least favorite aspect of travel planning, so I'm happy to leave it scrolling through I restrain myself from jumping in when I see it's set the wrong dates, but it corrects this itself. It spends a while surveying an Ibis listing, but ends up choosing a three-star hotel called Martin's Brugge, which I note users have rated as having an excellent location. Now all that's left is an itinerary. Here, Operator seems to lose steam. It offers a perfunctory one-day schedule that appears to have mainly been cribbed from a vegetarian travel blog. On day 2, it suggests I 'visit any remaining attractions or museums.' Wow, thanks for the tip. The day of the trip arrives, and, as I drag myself out of bed at 4:30AM, I remember why I usually avoid early departures. Still, I get to Brussels without issue. My ticket allows for onward travel, but I realize I don't know where I'm going. I fire up Operator on my phone and ask which platform the next Bruges-bound train departs from. It searches the Belgian railway timetables. Minutes later, it's still searching. I look up and see the details on a station display. I get to the platform before Operator has figured it out. Bruges is delightful. Given Operator's lackluster itinerary, I branch out. This kind of research task is perfect for a large language model, I realize—it doesn't require agentic capabilities. ChatGPT, Operator's OpenAI sibling, gives me a much more thorough plan, plotting activities by the hour with suggestions of not just where to eat, but what to order (Flemish stew at De Halve Mann brewery). I also try Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, and their plans are similar: Walk to the market square; see the belfry tower; visit the Basilica of the Holy Blood. Bruges is a small city, and I can't help but wonder if this is simply the standard tourist route, or if the AI models are all getting their information from the same sources. Various travel-specific AI tools are trying to break through this genericness. I briefly try MindTrip, which provides a map alongside a written itinerary, offers to personalize recommendations based on a quiz, and includes collaborative features for shared trips. CEO Andy Moss says it expands on broad LLM capabilities by leveraging a travel-specific 'knowledge base' containing things like weather data and real-time availability. Courtesy of Victoria Turk After lunch, I admit defeat. According to ChatGPT's itinerary I should spend the afternoon on a boat tour, taking photos in another square, and visiting a museum. It has vastly overestimated the stamina of a human who's been up since 4:30AM. I go to rest at my hotel, which is basic, but indeed ideally located. I'm coming around to Operator's lazier plans: I'll do the remaining attractions tomorrow. As a final task, I ask the agent to make a dinner reservation—somewhere authentic but not too expensive. It gets bamboozled by a dropdown menu during the booking process but manages a workaround after a little encouragement. I'm impressed as I walk past the obvious tourist traps to a more out-of-the-way dining room that serves classic local cuisine and is themed around pigeons. It's a good find—and one that doesn't seem to appear on the top 10 lists of obvious guides like TripAdvisor or The Fork. On the train home, I muse on my experience. The AI agent certainly required supervision. It struggled to string tasks together and lacked an element of common sense, such as when it tried to book the earliest train home. But it was refreshing to outsource decision-making to an assistant that could present a few select options, rather than having to scroll through endless listings. For now, people mainly use AI for inspiration, says Emma Brennan at travel agent trade association ABTA; it doesn't beat the human touch. 'An increasing number of people are booking with the travel agents for the reason that they want someone there if something goes wrong,' she says. It's easy to imagine AI tools taking over the information gateway role from search and socials, with businesses clamoring to appear in AI-generated suggestions. 'Google isn't going to be the front door for everything in the future,' says Moss. Are we ready to give this power to a machine? But then, perhaps that ship has sailed. When planning travel myself, I'll reflexively check a restaurant's Google rating, look up a hotel on Instagram, or read TripAdvisor reviews of an attraction, despite desires to stay away from the default tourist beat. Embarking on my AI trip, I worried I'd spend more time staring at my screen. By the end, I realize I've probably spent less.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
AWGE Spring 2026: Clothes Maketh What You Make Of Them
Within the fashion realm, the black vans circling around the church where A$AP Rocky's spring AWGE show was held spelled the arrival of A-lister guests. But in the broader global landscape, one couldn't help think of ICE raids and protests, an impression the masked protesters and armed forces in flak vests facing off outside the venue did nothing to dispel. More from WWD A$AP Rocky Debuted New Puma Sneaker Collaborations in Paris With Support From Rihanna The Originals: Yohji Yamamoto Takashi Murakami and Readymade's Yuta Hosokawa Team on Capsule Collection The stage seemed set for a riot, and they got one – Riot Mayers in the arms of mom Rihanna. In their wake, the crowd moved inside with all the resigned weariness of travelers passing between the hands of the TSA and through security gates. Eventually, Rocky had guests – who included fellow musicians A$AP Nast, Miguel – nodding in their seats to the sound of a new track rumored to be from his hotly anticipated 'Don't Be Dumb' album. For AWGE's sophomore coed collection, titled 'Obligatory Clothing,' the rapper-turned-designer zeroed in on archetypes that went from suit-wearing lawyers and paramedics to youths in hair curlers and XXL streetwear, a glamourpuss wearing a trench over a micro-miniskirt and louche types in satin playing card prints – what you think they do for a living is on you. 'For me, this whole 'Obligatory Fashion' statement was just [about] how you take the simple uniform or the purpose of a uniform, and how people correlate that to profession, lifestyle and everything,' Rocky said after the show. By the time the hammer fell in the 'City Court of AWGE,' as one print indicated, the verdict was: if sharp tailoring is a crime, the brand is guilty as charged. Here, he continued to refine the ideas introduced in his first effort, and served his purpose of skewing perception. Suit jackets looked classic from the front and were backless; tailored trousers were split into a skirt; shirts turned into crisp halter tops; sagging trousers had six waistbands – half boxer shorts, half denim ones. Elsewhere, his eye for tweaking proportions just so came through strongly, as evidenced by a workwear suit cut oversized which felt dressed up under the combined influence of cropped trousers and red-soled patent Mary-Janes. It was the kind of detail that made his designs stand up to sartorial scrutiny. There were plenty of accessories to further mix things up, like paper bags with a flower peeking from the glass bottle inside, which brought Banksy's famous Flower Thrower mural to mind. The musical artist's collaborations were also represented. Eyewear and clutches shaped like XXL cases nodded to his role as creative director of Ray-Ban. Feet were clad in the upcoming Puma Mostro Gabbia and a distressed iteration on the Speedcat model. Those Mary-Janes and stilettos were from Christian Louboutin and came with bedazzled charms made by jewelry label Pavē Niteō, which is under the A$AP Rocky Ventures, Inc. umbrella. Pointed commentary on recent and current events as well as his own experiences was palpable but delivered with a light touch. 'I'm gonna put all of these things into my fashion to tell my story without having it to be so like 'look, I'm controversial and political,'' he said. 'I'm just showing you the way I see it in little nifty ways.' Just as pointed is his retail strategy. After available exclusively on the brand's website for its debut, the brand will now be opening to wholesale accounts. But don't expect to see AWGE on every major retail floor. 'I want to start off very niche…small, limited and exclusive,' Rocky said. 'There's no way to do that in an environment that's oversaturated with new brands, old brands.' Plus, 'there's just a lot going on in the global economy – it's f–ed, pardon my French, for lack of better words,' he continued. 'And I think I have a particular customer, and I want to target that customer [who] loves, grieves and agrees with everything that I like, my taste, my values, my lifestyle, my past, my conflictions and my story.' And that customer may get their hands on the goods sooner than they think: the brand announced it was holding a sample sale in Paris on Sunday and Monday. Launch Gallery: AWGE A$AP Rocky Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection Best of WWD Windowsen RTW Spring 2022 Louis Shengtao Chen RTW Spring 2022 Vegan Fashion Week Returns to L.A. With Nous Etudions, Vegan Tiger on the Runway
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Zak Starkey Has Strong Advice For Replacement Drummer
Recently, the son of Ringo Starr, Zak Starkey, found himself out of a job when The Who ousted him from the band. But, The Who is not the only mega-famous band that Starkey has been a part of. From 2005 to 2008, Starkey was the touring drummer for Oasis. And, although you'd think that getting fired from The Who could send Starkey back to Oasis, the truth is he won't be returning to that band either, mostly for timing reasons. However, he does have some advice for the newest Oasis drummer, Joey Waronker. "The thing about groups that you love – like The Who or Oasis – is that it's not a job," Starkey told NME in a new interview. "It's about protecting music." To that point, about protecting the music, Starkey says the key to being a good Oasis drummer is simple. "Make sure you get the tempos right. Then boys know." Starkey might not be touring with Oasis anytime soon again, but he is, kind of, already in a supergroup with two Oasis members. Mantra Of The Cosmos consists of Shaun Ryder, Bez of The Happy Mondays, as well as Andy Bell, of Oasis. And the most recent song, "Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous)," features Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher According to Starkey, when Gallagher heard the new song, he said: "'This is the maddest thing I've ever heard,' and that's a compliment!" You can listen to the over-the-top song yourself on Spotify or below. View the to see embedded media. Zak Starkey Has Strong Advice For Replacement Drummer first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 26, 2025
