Google Turns AI Mode Into a Travel Agent and Ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

Google is quietly converting search into an action layer while pushing another fast multimodal model out the door.

Google spent the day expanding both what its models can do and what they'll do on your behalf. @marcopapa99 reported that Google is turning AI Mode into "a travel agent" — pushing its search-embedded assistant from answering questions to executing bookings and itineraries. That's the same agentic drift visible everywhere this week, applied to the highest-traffic surface on the internet.

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