Skift · 26 May 2026
Air India is folding Express into its Maharaja Club loyalty programme and reorienting network planning around hub concentration, unifying the full-service and low-cost arms under one frequent-flyer economy.
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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
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A Booking.com executive has been brought in to lead Airbnb's hotel strategy, signalling a structural push to compete directly with traditional accommodation OTAs rather than staying in the alternative-lodging lane.
Skift·26 May 2026
A read of Stanford's 2026 AI Index argues that AI capability gains have plateaued in headline benchmarks but accelerated in deployment economics, making fluency with AI workflows the dividing line between designers who stay relevant and those who don't.
UX Collective·26 May 2026
A new analysis finds that 85% of enterprises want to be agentic within three years but 76% lack the people, processes, and infrastructure to support it — pointing to a growing gap between AI ambition and operational readiness.
MIT Tech Review (AI)·26 May 2026
Design & Product
AI in Design Report 2026
The 2026 AI in Design report from Designer Fund and Foundation Capital documents how design teams are restructuring tools, craft expectations, and team composition around AI, with adoption patterns now diverging sharply between early-movers and laggards.
Why it matters
Provides a benchmark for where a travel product design org should sit on AI tool adoption, team ratios, and craft expectations relative to industry medians — useful input for 2026 design org planning.
stateofaidesign.com·26 May 2026
Essential books for product builders—part 1
A curated list of thirty-six foundational books for product builders, weighted toward craft, leadership, and decision-making rather than frameworks — positioned as a counterweight to the AI-tooling discourse dominating product media.
Signals that even AI-forward product communities are recentring on durable craft fundamentals, which gives PM and design leaders cover to invest in foundational training alongside AI-tool fluency.
Lenny's Newsletter·26 May 2026