March 5 : Shares of online travel agencies surged on Thursday after a report that OpenAI is scaling back plans to integrate direct bookings into ChatGPT, easing investor fears that the AI chatbots could eventually cut out travel intermediaries. Shares of Expedia were up over 12 per cent, while Booking Holdings and Tripadvisor rose 8 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively. The rally followed a report by The Information that OpenAI found ChatGPT users were researching products in the chatbot but