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Applied AI·July 23, 2026·1 min read

AI is actually making Google search bigger

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If AI features are driving query growth and a 17% bump in search revenue, then assistants and overviews are not cannibalizing search—they’re deepening it. Any acquisition strategy that assumed “AI kills SEO” needs to be updated to “AI raises the bar on what ranks and converts.”

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The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline

If more founders like Yang Zhilin see greater upside in China than in Silicon Valley, the center of gravity for frontier AI talent is already more multipolar than Western narratives admit. Multinational teams should plan for a world where the best collaborators, competitors, and regulators are not US-centric by default.