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Add as a preferred source on GoogleThe count covered September, the first complete calendar month after the ChatGPT booking option went live Aug. 10.
At Booking Holdings’ Nov. 3 earnings call, CFO Ewout Steenbergen said the OpenTable-ChatGPT integration recorded 190,000 seated covers in September.
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said the integration had become one of OpenTable’s fastest-growing channels, from a small base.
ChatGPT displays available OpenTable reservation times, and users can select one to start the booking process.
Unverified reports included shared teams, free API accounts and Pro subscriptions costing $200 per month. Some account holders said saved chats and memories stored in the cloud became inaccessible.
OpenAI reported a 16.7% share in July 2024. Its monthly sample contains one million consumer messages from eligible adult accounts, while organizational use is tracked separately.
Federal Reserve policymaker Bowman estimated that core inflation rose to 3.3% in October and said further interest-rate changes should wait for a clearer picture of economic conditions.
