Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Monday, April 17th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Hey everybody back from Ireland and man, the universe dumped all the news on me this

morning all at once Google is rushing to add AI to search because they're afraid

Samsung is about to jump ship to bing more chaos at Twitter meta has to make nice

with advertisers Spotify seems to be abandoning

its paywall podcast strategy, and is Apple's Watch OS about to get its biggest overhaul ever.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Over the weekend, the New York Times had a piece looking at Google's Project Magi, which is apparently the code name for their initiative to upgrade Google search by incorporating

AI into it. But hidden in that piece was a little nugget as to why they're doing this.

Sources are saying Samsung is considering changing the default

search on their phones to Bing instead of Google search, which would be

friggin huge. Like the whole reason Google did Android in the first place was an attempt to

protect their search franchise on mobile.

Quote, Google's reaction to the Samsung threat was panic according to internal messages reviewed by the

New York Times an estimated $3 billion in annual revenue was at stake with the

Samsung contract an additional $20 billion is tied to a similar Apple

contract that will be up for renewal this year.

AI competitors like the new bing are quickly becoming the most serious threat to Google

search business in 25 years and in response Google is racing to build an all

new search engine powered by the technology.

It is also upgrading the existing one with AI features, according to internal documents reviewed

by the Times.

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