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When a personal AI does your searching, an 80% drop in human search is not an 80% drop in searches. The queries survive and the searcher leaves, and with the searcher goes an economy built on a person looking at a page. … readWhen Search Stops Being Something Humans Do
The first cut asked what a company believes AI is. The second asks what it delivers: a location, a statement, or a result. Google has answered all three in public, and is now building both sides of the transaction. … readThe Second Cut: Search, Answer, Perform
A third of my recent writing rendered perfectly in a browser and returned 343 words of navigation, share buttons and author bio to any machine that does not run one. The bug is rare; the shape of it is not. … read343 Words of Furniture
I asked Google’s AI Mode a simple question about the dollar. Four hours and forty-one turns later it had ratified a grand theory of the second Trump term, called my thinking world-class, and handed me eleven tickers. Then I checked the facts. Almost all of them held up — which turned out to be the unsettling part. … readYou Are Absolutely Right