Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.

Alphabet and Apple shares sank after Eddy Cue, Apple's services chief, said he believes that AI search engines will eventually replace standard search engines such as Google, according to Bloomberg.

How does AI-generated content perform in search and answer engines? Companies are publishing millions of AI-generated articles in an attempt to drive traffic from Google Search and answer engines such ...