Google's wonky AI search sends CEO into legal minefield

It's no more Mr Nice Google as it risks its 30-year legacy for creating the web into a short-term cash grab fearing an antitrust breakup...

Good morning and welcome to new subs from National Geographic, Africa’s Media24, Australia’s Nine Entertainment and SBS, Canberra’s News and Media Research Centre, Spain’s national news agency EFE, and Holland’s Pijper Media, among others.

Great to have you along.

In a few hours, I’m addressing the United Nations to answer their questions on the future of media, and the risks that an unchecked Big Tech industry presents to democracy.

It caps a busy week for me, with a slew of public appearances prompted by Google’s rapid - and in my view utterly reckless - roll out of SGE AI Overviews.

The coin is starting to drop with media leaders and marketers (three of the new subs above are CEOs) that the warnings I’ve been making for a year are coming true.

I predicted that a myopic, Google-geek-run, machine-managed AI would turn hard news into asparagus ice cream.

Google now recommends drizzling pizza with glue. Close enough. I rest my case.

The post truth horror of two decades of Big Tech strangulat…