How Google plans to win the AI war

Google is trying to pull off one of the trickiest balancing acts in tech: aggressively disrupting its own products with AI while protecting the businesses that generate tens of billions in profit.Why it matters: Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, Google enters the AI race with enormous scale, distribution and cash flow — but also a vast empire it has to defend.Driving the news: As it has for the past two years, Google used this week's I/O developer conference to focus almost entirely on AI.It's revamp...