{"id":204519,"date":"2026-04-21T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/yelps-new-ai-powered-assistant-will-book-a-reservation-for-you\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:10:21","slug":"yelps-new-ai-powered-assistant-will-book-a-reservation-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/yelps-new-ai-powered-assistant-will-book-a-reservation-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelp&#8217;s New AI-Powered Assistant Will Book a Reservation for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/yelp-launches-a-new-ai-powered-yelp-assistant\/\">Yelp&#8217;s New AI-Powered Assistant Will Book a Reservation for You<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/yelp-launches-a-new-ai-powered-yelp-assistant\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/yelp-launches-a-new-ai-powered-yelp-assistant\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 12:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summarized list of key points from the article on Yelp&#8217;s new AI-powered assistant:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yelp has introduced an AI-powered assistant that allows users to perform tasks on behalf of the user through conversational commands.<br \/>\n&#8211; The AI assistant can work across various categories on Yelp and is available on both iOS and Android devices.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yelp\u2019s AI assistant is part of a growing trend where AI models perform tasks such as booking services automatically.<br \/>\n&#8211; The new Yelp Assistant can facilitate actions like reserving a table, ordering food delivery, requesting service quotes, and scheduling appointments.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Assistant integrates with multiple platforms for booking and service scheduling, including Yelp Guest Manager, DoorDash, Grubhub, Vagaro, Calendly, and Zocdoc.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yelp\u2019s chief product officer, Craig Saldanha, highlights the AI assistant as the company\u2019s most significant product evolution designed to streamline user action and discovery in one conversation.<br \/>\n&#8211; The assistant is accessible via the new &#8220;Assistant&#8221; tab in the app, leveraging user-generated content and business data to complete tasks.<br \/>\n&#8211; This expansion builds on previous AI assistant debut in 2024 to enhance functionality and user experience.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelp&#8217;s New AI-Powered Assistant Will Book a Reservation for You https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/yelp-launches-a-new-ai-powered-yelp-assistant\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-21 12:53:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/bbb614286b31710a2346699debfd79f2f33099c2\/hub\/2026\/04\/21\/a8b8acfe-c5da-4488-a1ba-00f866e7e0de\/yelp-assistant-finding-pet-friendly-restaurants-and-booking-a-reservation.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204521,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204519\/revisions\/204521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}