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Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling

Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

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Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, last year. A new A.I.-generated feature in Google search results “is greatly detrimental to everyone apart from Google,” a newspaper executive said.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.
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