Behind Google’s Plans for AI-Powered Search Summaries

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Google plans to show artificial-intelligence-powered answers on its search engine starting this week in the U.S. WSJ reporter Miles Kruppa joins host Zoe Thomas to explain why the tech giant is making the change and how it could reshape the lucrative internet-search business. Plus, defense technology startups are seeing a surge in funding. But some of their Silicon Valley backers have deep ties to China. WSJ reporter Heather Somerville discusses investors’ conflicting strategies. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, May 15th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.0	When you want to search for something online, you often say you're Googling it.
0:45.0	But changes are coming to Google Search Engine that will impact how users get information
0:51.0	and could reshape the internet search business.
0:54.0	W.S.J. reporter Miles Krupa spoke to us from Google's I.O. Conference.
1:00.0	And then, patriotic investing.
1:02.0	Does it mark a new stands for venture capital? And then, patriotic investing.
1:02.7	Does it mark a new stance for venture capital firms?
1:05.8	Or is it just marketing spin?
1:08.2	Our reporter Heather Somerville joins us to explain
1:10.8	what patriotic investing is, why Silicon Valley is embracing the approach,
1:15.2	and why many of these investors still have deep ties to a U.S. adversary.
1:29.2	But first, starting this week, users in the US will begin to see AI-powered answers for some searches on Google. And by the end of the year, the company plans to roll out these results
1:34.8	to billions of people using its search engine. Google announced the changes yesterday
1:39.5	at its annual I.O conference, which has become a showcase for the company's AI capabilities.
1:45.0	Miles Krupa is the W.S.J. Google reporter, and he joins us now with more on the company's
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