Yelp’s AI Assistant Can Call a Restaurant and Join the Waitlist for You - CNET

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Hate calling restaurants to check wait times? Yelp is rolling out a new AI-powered tool to handle just that, along with other tools as the platform deepens its employment of agentic artificial intelligence.

“This release is another step forward as we transform Yelp with AI, with updates across every category on Yelp, from booking a table at a restaurant to hiring a pro for a home project,” Akhil Kuduvalli Ramesh, Yelp’s chief product officer, said in a statement.

Yelp expands its AI offerings

Just months after launching an updated AI assistant, Yelp Assistant, that can book reservations for you, Yelp is expanding its AI integrations with a new AI agent. Check for Me will call restaurants on your behalf to check wait times in real time and text you with updates within a few minutes. As personal and shopping assistants become more widely used, new reportsshow the hardships...

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