If AI eats search, Google is still all in: Morning Brief

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From a certain vantage point, Google looks like it’s being bullied into accepting the ascendance of AI.

After all, why mess with a trillion-dollar ads business that acts like a pillar of the consumer internet, a foundation for knowledge seeking, and a perpetual attention machine? The answer supplied by bears is because Google and Alphabet (GOOG) have to….