Google's AI Just Got Caught Overcharging You
Google's AI Mode has been caught showing the same products at prices 21.6% higher than traditional search. Nick and Jack dig into the AI shopping premium: why "show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" explains it, why a model that tacks 20% onto sponsored answers can't be trusted as an assistant, the flat-fee model that would fix it, and why Amazon living inside your favorite AI would be a killer business. Then the fun one: would you let an AI buy things for you before you ask? Jack already runs a "fun agent" in Grok that fights his finance agent over the budget, and Nick lays out…
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