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Club Offers Released on May 18, 2025

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NEW YORK, May 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Travelzoo® (NASDAQ: TZOO), the club for travel enthusiasts, announces the release of Club Offers for Club Members.

Rigorously vetted and negotiated for us travel enthusiasts in the U.S.:

$499—A CASTLE IN TUSCANY: 6 NIGHTS WITH FLIGHTS
Explore Tuscany for 6 nights with a 12th-century castle as your home base. Flights from the U.S. and a rental car are included.$399—ALL-INCLUSIVE BEACH VACATION WITH FLIGHTS
Escape to Cancun and spend 5 nights at an all-inclusive resort with direct beach access (flights included). Club Members save 56% when compared to what everyone else pays.$99—HOTEL STAYS NATIONWIDE WITH NO RESORT FEES
We’ve negotiated savings of up to 75% off regular rates at 10 well-reviewed hotels in major cities across the country, including Boston, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco. Even better, all resort fees are waived.$1999—ALL-INCLUSIVE MALDIVES OVERWATER VILLA FOR 2
Enjoy ocean views while relaxing in your 5-star overwater villa for 5 nights. All meals and drinks are included.$299—NORTHERN LIGHTS TRIP WITH FLIGHTS
Watch the skies come alive in Iceland on this 3-night adventure. Includes flights, hotel, breakfast and northern lights tour. You save $650.HALF PRICE—TREATMENTS AT 500+ SPAS
Spend $75 and get a $150 gift card valid for treatments at hundreds of spas nationwide. You won’t find this offer anywhere else.

Some offers have limited inventory and are subject to availability.

Are you a travel enthusiast? Join the club today: https://travelzoo.com.

About Travelzoo

We, Travelzoo®, are the club for travel enthusiasts. We reach 30 million travelers. Club Members receive Club Offers personally reviewed by our deal experts around the globe. We have our finger on the pulse of outstanding travel, entertainment, and lifestyle experiences. We work in partnership with thousands of top travel suppliers—our long-standing relationships give us access to irresistible deals.

Travelzoo is a registered trademark of Travelzoo. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Paige Cram – Los Angeles
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TutorABC Shop Launches Live Auction Streaming for Double 11

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iPhone 18 Pro Bidding Starts at NT$1 on November 11 as TutorABC Shop Opens Its Technology to Brands and Retailers

TAIPEI, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TutorABC Shop is launching a new real-time live auction shopping model this Double 11, combining livestreaming, instant bidding, social interaction and gamified shopping.

The initiative demonstrates how livestreaming can evolve beyond a marketing tool into a real-time commerce channel for brands, retailers, department stores, and e-commerce businesses.

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A Fast-Growing Global E-Commerce Model

Platforms including Whatnot, TikTok Shop and eBay Live have continued to expand livestream shopping and real-time bidding.

TutorABC Shop has developed this technology to help businesses create more interactive shopping experiences across their own platforms, websites and digital channels.

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Key features include:

Real-time bidding and purchasingLive product demonstrationsSocial interaction and entertainmentScarcity and time-limited competitionDirect engagement between brands and consumersIntegration into a brand’s or retailer’s existing digital ecosystem

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Rodney Miles, Co-Chairman of TutorABC Shop, said:

“Consumers increasingly want shopping to be interactive, social and entertaining—not simply another discount. The larger opportunity for TutorABC Shop is to enable brands and retailers to use this technology across their own platforms and digital channels, helping them showcase products, engage directly with customers and generate sales in real time.”

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Six Days of Live Bidding from November 6 to 11

TutorABC Shop will hold its “1111 Bidding Shopping Festival” from November 6 to November 11.

Highlights include:

Six consecutive days of live auction streamingA range of lifestyle and popular productsiPhone 18 Pro bidding starting at NT$1 on November 11Real-time viewing, bidding and interaction

The event will serve as a live demonstration of the technology and shopping experience that TutorABC Shop can provide to brands, retailers, department stores, and other commercial partners.

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Technology and Platform Opportunities for Brands and Retailers

While TutorABC Shop will operate its own Double 11 event, the broader opportunity is to make its live auction technology and platform capabilities available to major retailers, brands and e-commerce players.

Businesses can use the technology on their own websites, apps, online stores or other digital platforms to create branded live commerce experiences without having to build the underlying system themselves.

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Potential applications include:

New product launchesDedicated brand eventsLimited-edition productsHigh-interest productsInventory clearanceSpecial promotionsCustomer engagement campaignsLive commerce integrated into existing websites or e-commerce platforms

TutorABC Shop is seeking discussions with:

Major brandsRetail groupsE-commerce platformsOnline marketplacesDistributorsTechnology and channel partners 

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The concept is simple:

Turn livestreaming from content into real-time commerce—on the platforms where businesses already engage with their customers.

Companies interested in licensing, integrating or deploying TutorABC Shop’s live auction technology across their own platforms and digital channels may contact the TutorABC Shop partnership team.

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AGIBOT Unveils GO-3 Preview, Takes Top Spot on Three Embodied AI Benchmarks

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The new embodied foundation model connects pre-training, post-training and post-deployment learning, helping robots develop general-purpose capabilities and continuously improve through real-world experience.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AGIBOT unveiled GO-3 Preview, an embodied foundation model that supports large-scale learning across the full lifecycle of pre-training, post-training and post-deployment. The model has also secured first-place rankings on three major embodied AI benchmarks—RoboDojo, RoboTwin and RoboColiseum—and will be fully open-sourced by the end of 2026.

Built on AGIBOT’s proprietary embodied-native architecture, WRAM (World Reasoning Action Model), GO-3 Preview unifies task understanding, future-state prediction and action generation to enable robots to generalize across tasks and perform precise manipulation. Together with Genie Evolver, AGIBOT’s hybrid post-training system, and Genie Master, its embodied agent framework, GO-3 Preview forms an integrated learning system spanning pre-training, post-training and real-world deployment. AGIBOT calls this approach “full-lifecycle scaling,” designed to help robots develop general capabilities, refine their skills through interaction and continuously improve by learning from real-world work.

Large language models have made remarkable advances in reasoning and knowledge-based tasks, but working in the physical world requires more than understanding instructions. Tasks such as grasping small objects and assembling components demand the ability to anticipate environmental changes, manage contact forces and execute precise physical movements. For embodied AI, the challenge is not simply to scale model training, but to extend learning across the entire lifecycle. Rather than developing capabilities solely during pre-training, robots must also learn through post-training interactions and continue adapting after deployment. GO-3 Preview is designed around this principle: enabling robots not only to learn how to perform tasks, but also to become more capable through performing them.

Pre-Training Scaling: Building General Capabilities That Transfer Across Tasks

Consider a simple instruction: “Pick up the cup.” The object could be a mug with a handle or a smooth glass, positioned in the middle of a table or surrounded by clutter. To handle such variations, a robot cannot simply memorize specific objects or fixed movements. It needs general-purpose capabilities that transfer across tasks and environments. During pre-training, GO-3 Preview addresses this challenge by scaling both data and model capabilities through its embodied-native WRAM architecture. This approach is designed to help robots learn transferable skills and adapt more quickly to unfamiliar situations.

WRAM connects task understanding, future-state prediction and action generation within a unified architecture. Three core designs — CoAE, SVP and KASO — work together to help the model understand what needs to be done, anticipate what may happen next and generate the actions required to complete a task.

CoAE (Control-Oriented Autoencoder) extracts visual representations tailored to robotic control, preserving information about object positions, shapes and spatial relationships. By linking visual perception to physical action, it provides a foundation for predicting future states and generating appropriate movements.

SVP generates a complete prediction of future states in a single step based on current observations and task conditions. The action-generation module then learns how to move from the current state toward the predicted outcome. By connecting the robot’s observations with possible future developments, SVP helps the model anticipate changes rather than relying solely on immediate visual input.

KASO addresses the challenge of multiple plausible outcomes in physical environments by selecting future predictions that are more consistent with the actions actually taken during training. These selected predictions are used for joint learning, helping align future-state prediction with action generation so the model can learn actions that lead to physically consistent outcomes.

Building on these three mechanisms, GO-3 Preview scales learning through both data and model development. On the data side, the model learns from heterogeneous sources. Human first-person videos provide rich examples of object interactions and task execution, while robot trajectories establish connections between observations, actions and their physical outcomes. On the model side, improvements in learning capacity help the system organize these diverse experiences and translate them into general capabilities that can be applied across different tasks. The goal is not simply to learn more examples, but to make better use of those experiences when encountering new situations.

Following pre-training, GO-3 Preview demonstrates task adaptation in both zero-shot and few-shot settings. In zero-shot scenarios, the model can apply previously learned capabilities to new tasks without requiring task-specific supervised fine-tuning on physical robots. This demonstrates its ability to transfer general skills to unfamiliar tasks and environments. For more complex operations, GO-3 Preview can further improve through few-shot learning, using a small number of demonstrations to adapt its capabilities.

LEGO assembly provides one example. The task requires a robot to identify individual components, grasp them precisely, align their positions and insert them correctly. With limited additional demonstrations and fine-tuning, the model can learn these precise manipulation skills, while an embodied agent coordinates the individual steps into a complete assembly process. Together, these examples demonstrate how pre-training can establish a general foundation that supports both direct task transfer and further adaptation.

Post-Training Scaling: Improving Through Physical and Virtual Interaction

General capabilities alone are not enough for robots to perform every complex task reliably. Just as people refine their skills through repeated practice, robots need opportunities to experiment, receive feedback and improve their action strategies. For GO-3 Preview’s post-training stage, AGIBOT developed Genie Evolver, a distributed hybrid-environment training system that combines a fleet of 100 physical robots with physics simulation and world models. By expanding the scale and diversity of interactions, Genie Evolver enables robots to learn from both physical execution and virtual exploration, continually refining their action policies through feedback. The system brings together three complementary learning environments.

Physical Robots: Learning from Collective Experience. In real-world environments, Genie Evolver uses CEL (Collective Experience Learning) to aggregate execution experience across multiple robots. Successful trajectories provide examples of effective actions, while the context surrounding failed attempts helps identify where improvements are needed. By retrieving relevant successful experiences and updating shared strategies, CEL allows lessons learned by individual robots to benefit the wider fleet. Rather than requiring each robot to learn everything independently, the system makes collective experience reusable.

Physics Simulation: Expanding the Range of Interactions. Physics simulation provides controlled environments in which robots can practice and be evaluated under different conditions. These environments expand the range of physical interactions and scenarios available for training, while allowing experiments to be repeated under consistent conditions. This makes it possible to explore alternative strategies and improve robustness across a broader range of situations.

World Models: Exploring Multiple Possible Futures. World models allow the system to learn more from each real-world experience by exploring alternative outcomes. Rather than treating an interaction as a single sequence of actions, Genie Evolver can revisit critical decision points, test different possible actions in a world model, and predict and compare their outcomes. Feedback from these explorations is then used to refine action strategies, which can subsequently be tested on physical robots.

Together, these environments create a continuous improvement process in which real-world execution, simulation and future-state exploration reinforce one another. AGIBOT demonstrates this approach through several manipulation tasks requiring precision, adaptation and rapid decision-making.

In tabletop curling, the robot must control both the force and angle of each shot. Too little force may fail to move an opponent’s stone, while excessive force can send the robot’s own stone outside the scoring area. Success depends on striking the right balance while accounting for the positions of the stones. According to AGIBOT, after just a few hours of practice combining real-world interaction and world-model learning, the robot achieved a higher win rate than typical human players.

Block extraction introduces a different challenge: each successful action changes the conditions for the next. When a red block is removed, the positions and orientations of the remaining blocks may shift. These changes can affect subsequent decisions, making it difficult to complete the task through a fixed sequence of movements. By drawing on accumulated experience, the robot can reassess the stack after each action, adjust its strategy and continue removing the target blocks until the task is complete.

Throwing a ball into a moving basket presents a more dynamic challenge. Unlike a stationary target, a moving basket gives the robot less time to observe, predict and react. The robot must rapidly identify the basket’s position while adjusting the force and angle of its throw in real time. Accurate predictions of fast-changing conditions are equally important, enabling the robot to coordinate its movements and release the ball at the right moment. Together, these demonstrations illustrate how GO-3 Preview can improve its manipulation capabilities through repeated interaction, feedback and strategy refinement.

Post-Deployment Scaling: Learning and Improving Through Real-World Work

Even with extensive pre-training and post-training, robots inevitably encounter situations they have never seen before once deployed in real-world environments. Traditionally, addressing such problems has often required human engineers to modify code, collect additional data or manually adjust the robot’s behavior. This limits how quickly capabilities can improve after deployment. AGIBOT’s approach is to extend learning into the deployment stage itself, allowing robots to improve while carrying out real tasks.

Through its embodied agent framework, Genie Master, AGIBOT connects planning, execution, feedback and experience retention to help robots adapt to new challenges and continuously develop their capabilities. Genie Master introduces EEP (Embodied Execution Protocol), which standardizes four categories of interfaces: capabilities, guidance, feedback and continuity. These interfaces allow an embodied agent to identify which robot capabilities are available, determine how tasks should be executed, assess whether the results meet the intended requirements and track work that remains unfinished. By connecting these functions, Genie Master helps robots coordinate task execution, identify failures, recover from exceptions and retain useful operational experience.

Crucially, this experience can contribute to future improvement through two complementary learning pathways. The first turns operational experience into long-term memory. During task planning and execution, the system records both successful and unsuccessful attempts, capturing lessons that can inform subsequent decisions. At the end of each day’s operations, the model consolidates reusable knowledge from these experiences into long-term memory. When similar tasks or situations arise, the agent can retrieve relevant past experiences to guide task planning, improve decisions and support recovery from failures. This allows lessons learned during one task to become useful knowledge for future operations.

The second pathway turns execution experience into improved action policies. As the agent assists with execution, takes over when necessary and supports recovery from failures, the system generates trajectories and feedback that capture problems, adjustments and outcomes. These records can be processed and used for further training of the robot’s action policies. Over time, effective adjustments can be incorporated into model parameters, turning practical experience into capabilities that can be reused in subsequent tasks. This creates a feedback loop in which deployment not only puts existing skills to work, but also generates new learning opportunities.

AGIBOT has demonstrated this approach using its Genie G2 robot in a real convenience store environment. Powered by Genie Master, the robot was able to identify the causes of task failures, adjust its strategies and accumulate experience while performing operational tasks. According to AGIBOT, the robot continued improving across multiple complex tasks requiring precise manipulation without relying on human demonstrations or manual tuning. The company describes the demonstration as an example of autonomous improvement without a human in the loop, in which the robot learns from its own operational experience rather than depending entirely on external intervention.

AGIBOT also describes this as a demonstration of Physical RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement in the Physical World) in a real business environment, extending the concept of self-improvement beyond simulation and laboratory settings. The significance of this approach lies in connecting real-world execution with continued learning. Instead of treating deployment as the final stage of model development, Genie Master makes operational experience a resource for ongoing improvement.

From GO-1 to GO-3: Extending Scaling Across the Full Learning Lifecycle

From the ViLLA framework introduced with GO-1 to the action chain-of-thought approach pioneered in GO-2, AGIBOT has continued expanding the capabilities of its embodied AI models. GO-3 Preview represents the next step in this development, extending scaling beyond pre-training to encompass post-training and learning after deployment. Its first-place rankings on RoboDojo, RoboTwin and RoboColiseum, together with demonstrations of task transfer, complex manipulation and real-world adaptation, highlight the potential of this full-lifecycle approach.

Rather than relying on improvements at a single stage, GO-3 Preview, Genie Evolver and Genie Master connect three essential processes: developing general capabilities through pre-training, refining action strategies through physical and virtual interaction, and turning real-world operational experience into continued learning. As data, feedback and experience form a continuous cycle, the system is designed to help robots expand their capabilities over time. For AGIBOT, full-lifecycle scaling represents a path from acquiring skills to applying, reusing and improving them — enabling robots to turn what they have learned into practical performance and every real-world task into an opportunity to become more capable.

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About AGIBOT
AGIBOT is a pioneer in the global general-purpose AI robotics industry, with its core technology focused on embodied AI. AGIBOT’s “Three Intelligences in One” architecture integrates Locomotion Intelligence, Interaction Intelligence, and Manipulation Intelligence into a unified embodied system. Its portfolio spans humanoid robots, quadrupeds, dexterous systems, and commercial cleaning solutions. In September 2026, AGIBOT announced that its 20,000th robot had rolled off the production line.

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H World Group Asia Pacific and Agoda Established Five-Year Strategic Cooperation to Accelerate Hotel Expansion Across Asia-Pacific

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SINGAPORE, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — H World Hotel Management Pte. Ltd. (“H World APAC”) and Agoda have entered into a five-year strategic cooperation agreement aimed at supporting H World APAC’s hotel network expansion and business volume increment across the Asia-Pacific region. The collaboration brings together the companies’ complementary strengths in market intelligence, business analytics, hotel distribution and performance marketing.

Driving Hotel Network Expansion Across Asia-Pacific

As part of the regional growth strategy, H World APAC is targeting the opening of approximately 70 hotels over the next five years. Under the collaboration, Agoda will support H World APAC’s expansion efforts by providing market intelligence, facilitating introduction to prospective hotel investors and partners, and supporting location assessment and business development initiatives in selected markets.

Leveraging Market Intelligence and Data Analytics

The partnership establishes a framework for collaboration in market intelligence and business data analytics, enabling both parties to identify growth opportunities and increase market share across the regions.

Through the sharing of relevant market insights and destination demand trends, H World APAC and Agoda will explore potential hotel development opportunities and strengthen network planning efforts.

Enhancing Hotel distribution and Driving Revenue Growth

A key component of the agreement focuses on creating additional value for hotels. Participating H World APAC properties will benefit from Agoda’s extensive distribution network, marketing initiatives, and revenue growth programs. These initiatives are designed to help participating hotels improve visibility, drive demand, and optimize commercial performance.

“Asia-Pacific is central to the next chapter of H World Group’s global growth journey. Our strengths in hotel operations, brand building, supply chain management and operational efficiency have enabled us to become the world’s fourth-largest hotel group by room count. Agoda complements these capabilities with deep demand intelligence and extensive market reach across Asia-Pacific. Together, we can accelerate our expansion in a more asset-light manner while creating a more compelling value proposition for hotel owners seeking a trusted growth partner.” said Murphy Zhu, President, H World Group Asia Pacific.

Andrew Smith, Senior Vice President, Agoda added, “We’re excited to support H World APAC’s ambitions across Asia-Pacific. Supporting growth starts with understanding where travellers want to go and what they’re looking for. With Agoda’s travel demand insights, global distribution reach, and local market expertise, we’re well positioned to help H World APAC identify opportunities and connect its hotels with more travellers.”

Through this five-year partnership, participating H World APAC hotels will gain access to a broader ecosystem of support encompassing market intelligence, business development, distribution, marketing, and performance enhancement initiatives. By combining Agoda’s global reach and distribution capabilities with H World APAC’s expertise in hotel management and operation, the collaboration aims to unlock new growth opportunities for hotels across the Asia-Pacific region.

Contact:
Ms. Yanni LO
Senior Marketing Manager, APAC
Email: lukaixin@hworld.com 
Phone: (+852) 3585 3095

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