Uber adds hotel bookings and says agentic AI helped it ship faster
Uber is expanding beyond rides and eats with in-app hotel booking plus a bundle of travel features, and the company says agentic coding tools helped cut development time.
Uber announced a hotel-booking feature that lets U.S. customers book more than 700,000 hotels worldwide through an Expedia partnership, alongside new travel-mode and search features and an AI-powered voice booking option. Uber’s CTO said agentic AI coding tools (including Cursor) helped move ideas into production in months and roughly halved development time.
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