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Nov 11, 2026
OpenAI Acquires Odessia, an AI Travel Agent, From Sonder's Founder
OpenAI acquired Odessia, an AI travel agent startup founded by Sonder co-founder Francis Davidson, the companies announced Monday. Built in five months by eight people using GPT-5.5 and Codex, Odessia had processed over $60 million in annualized travel bookings before being shut down as part of the deal. The acquisition signals OpenAI's ambition to move beyond simply referring users to Booking.com and Expedia.
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Nov 11, 2026
AgentCore Web Answer vs Web Search: who runs the model, what you get back, and what the managed tool decides for you
AWS announced general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on 5 November 2026. Web Search hands your agent ranked links and snippets and leaves synthesis to your own model. Web Answer runs the retrieval loop, model, synthesis and citation step and returns a finished cited answer through AgentCore Gateway. This piece compares the returned artifact, the permissions, the controls you keep, the $10 per 1,000 tool calls price and the limits, including what AWS's guide does not establish.
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Nov 11, 2026
Bedrock's AgenticRetrieveStream now takes maxAgentIteration 0 or 1: passages only, or one retrieval plus one answer
On November 9, 2026, AWS said Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base can run retrieval-only and single-shot RAG requests through AgenticRetrieveStream. Setting maxAgentIteration to 0 with generateResponse false returns passages with no foundation model call. Setting it to 1 retrieves once and generates one answer with no planning rounds. Values 2 to 5 keep the existing agentic behavior. The application chooses the mode; the parameter does not route requests automatically. AWS gives no new latency, cost or accuracy measurements, and the passages-only stream differs in shape from a direct Retrieve call.
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