Is Google Facing an Existential Threat from Generative AI?

What we’ll cover today:

• 🤖 Google in threat due to Gen AI? 

• 🌍 Energy-hungry AI is eating the planet.

• 🧠 Alex Hormozi’s take on AI 

• 🔗 The Event Roundup

Google in threat due to Gen AI?

What if Google wasn’t the go-to place for answers anymore?

Sounds wild, right?

But the game is changing fast.

AI tools like OpenAI's SearchGPT now give people instant, direct answers.

No more scrolling through endless links.

It’s quick easy, shaking up how we search for information.

Here’s what’s happening:

• Microsoft has invested $13 billion into OpenAI.

• Apple is integrating ChatGPT into Siri.

• Startups like Perplexity, backed by Jeff Bezos, offer clean, ad-free search experiences.

Google’s once unbeatable search model is starting to feel the pressure.

The question is: can Google keep up with this AI revolution?

Or are we seeing the start of a new era in search?

Here’s the full article

1. Energy-hungry AI is eating the planet.

AI’s growing energy demands strain the environment, despite its potential to solve climate issues. 

Balancing current consumption with future benefits requires urgent innovation in renewable energy to avoid exacerbating environmental damage.

Experts from MIT and the University of California weigh in.

Here’s the full read

2. Alex Hormozi’s take on AI

Alex explained that AI would eventually mimic every aspect of human behavior to appear more human-like. 

He tweets his thoughts about how AI will learn to make mistakes intentionally to sound more human.

Here’s the full read

1. Apple debuts iPhone 16 with AI software 

"The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up. It marks the beginning of an exciting new era," Chief Executive Tim Cook said at a product launch.

2. AI creates lifelike videos and people are afraid of it. 

Some social networks ask users to label A.I. videos, but they don’t really enforce it, so many viewers don’t realize they’re watching something fake.

3. Oil and gas company to use AI to speed up decision-making by engineers. 

The companies said their partnership improved performance and the new software is designed for “safe and reliable AI deployment,” addressing the issue of AI "hallucinations," where models present false information due to data or processing errors.