Expedia announces layoffs due to AI advancement on its platform

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    "url": "https://www.ladevi.info/traveltech/expedia-anuncia-despidos-el-avance-la-ia-su-plataforma-n104933",
    "title": "Expedia announces layoffs due to AI advancement on its platform - ladevi.info",
    "contact": "Rick Fast",
    "excerpt": "The move affects a senior vice president and seven vice presidents and seeks to reduce coordination levels, bring technology teams closer to brands, and accelerate product development. In an internal memo from the OTA, management admits it needs to move faster and states that, over the past year, \"AI has radically changed what is possible.\" Among those leaving is Sachin Singh, senior vice president responsible for technology linked to the process from booking to travel, whose area had worked, among other fields, on payments, fraud prevention, checkout, customer service, and artificial intelligence. Seven vice presidents linked to Product and Technology are also leaving the company. Expedia will redistribute part of these responsibilities among other technology managers and corporate areas, within a model that aims to reduce work transfers between departments. Expedia Group achieves successful financial results in Q1 2026.\nThe reorganization is not limited to executive departures. Expedia is grouping different technology and product teams and has placed data, AI, and agentic systems platforms under Xavier Amatriain, chief data and AI officer, while Rick Fast assumes the role of chief architect. The approach combines, according to the OTA itself, greater centralization of common technological infrastructures with smaller product teams closer to Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and the...",
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