Planning a trip? These 3 new Google AI tools could save you time and money (www.techradar.com)

Google has rolled out three AI-powered travel upgrades in Search’s AI Mode: Canvas for Travel, an expanded Flight Deals feature, and broader agentic booking capabilities. Canvas creates interactive custom itineraries from simple prompts (e.g., “five days in Austin with family, good barbecue, live music”), pulling real‑time data from Google Flights and Hotels, Maps reviews/photos, and web sources so plans update dynamically when you change dates or preferences. Flight Deals—now available in 200+ countries and 60+ languages—generates destination and timing suggestions from vague queries like “cheap long-weekend from New York in February,” optimizing for price and traveler preferences. The most consequential change for the AI/ML community is the extension of agentic booking: AI Mode now autonomously searches availability across OpenTable, Resy, and Tock to surface and initiate bookings for restaurants (and, for U.S. Labs users, event tickets and local appointments), with flights and hotels slated next via integrations with partners such as Expedia, Marriott, Booking.com, and Wyndham. Technically this showcases orchestration of multimodal, real‑time APIs and agentic workflows that can complete transactions end‑to‑end—raising UX and industry implications around automation, platform power, personalization biases, and privacy, which Google has only briefly addressed. This rollout signals practical, production-grade agentic AI use in consumer services and a step toward seamless, AI‑driven trip planning.