{"id":163830,"date":"2025-12-02T05:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163830\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:41:42","slug":"expedia-hires-former-google-vp-as-first-chief-ai-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163830\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedia Hires Former Google VP as First Chief AI Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expedia Group said Monday that it had hired its first chief AI officer \u2014 an effort to get out in front of the big changes coming its way.\u00a0And the hire says a lot about what Expedia sees as its biggest challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Formerly vice president of AI and compute enablement at Google, Xavier Amatriain oversaw the search giant\u2019s core AI infrastructure systems powering Gemini, Search, Ads, and more.<\/p>\n<p>As Expedia\u2019s new chief artificial intelligence and data science officer, he will be responsible for the OTA\u2019s long-term vision for AI.<\/p>\n<p>This is a key role that cuts across both its consumer brands and enterprise division, which provides tech to business partners. The company framed the move as part of its commitment to \u201ctransforming travel through first-party data and cutting-edge AI technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expedia Group said Monday that it had hired its first chief AI officer \u2014 an effort to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,14524,367,111,139,69,107381,107382,145,78139],"class_list":["post-163830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-expedia","tag-google","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online-travel-newsletter","tag-otas","tag-technology","tag-the-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}