Ben Gilbert

But the question remains, what should Google do strategically?

Should they risk it all and lean into their birthright to win in artificial intelligence?

Or will protecting their gobs of profits from search hamstring them as the AI wave passes them by?

But perhaps first, we must answer the question, how did Google get here, David Rosenthal?

So listeners, today, we tell the story of Google, the AI company.

Woo-hoo.

You like that, David?

I love it.

I wrote that 100% myself with no AI.

Thank you very much.

No AI.

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