Google: Your new travel agent?

Hey there. Google wants to be your new travel agent, and Florida wants to lay down the law for AI in the classroom. Let’s take a look together! 😁

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What’s cookin’? Google is adding three new travel tools to AI Mode in Search, making it easier to plan and book trips without jumping between a dozen tabs.

🤔 Hunter’s take: This is Google quietly turning Search from a place where you find travel links into a place where you actually make travel decisions. Planning a trip is messy because every choice affects another one: price, timing, rewards points, hotel location, cancellation rules. AI can connect those dots in one conversation. The interesting part is that Google is not just answering questions anymore. It is moving closer to becoming the middle layer between you and the entire travel industry.

What’s cookin’? Florida is moving to regulate how AI is used across all 28 state colleges. The proposed rule would require each college to create clear AI policies covering students, faculty, staff, administrators, and even guests. Schools would have to explain which AI tools are allowed, when they can be used, and how they affect assignments, grading, and academic integrity. Students would not be allowed to use AI on graded work unless a teacher gives permission. The state says this is not meant to ban AI, but to make sure students learn how to use it responsibly while preparing for jobs where AI will likely be part of everyday work.

🤔 Hunter’s take: As an academic who teaches at universities, I’m good with the transparency part. Students should know when AI is allowed, when it is not, and what counts as crossing the line. My concern is the broader trend of regulating classroom AI from the top down. Professors need flexibility, because every class and subject is different. AI might be useful for one assignment or class, distracting in another, and harmful in a third. Clear expectations are good. But the more rigid these policies become, the more they risk flattening the judgment teachers actually need. The better goal is not just “consistent rules,” but also helping instructors decide when AI helps learning and when it gets in the way.

Hi — I’m Hunter, a PhD candidate whose work has appeared in major academic journals and popular tech outlets. I founded FryAI to make staying ahead of AI clear, accessible, and fun.

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