Google stock sinks on report Apple plans to integrate AI search into Safari browser
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) stock dropped more than 6% on Wednesday after Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, revealed that Apple (AAPL) is exploring adding AI search engines such as Perplexity to its default Safari web browser.
Cue’s comments came during Google parent Alphabet’s antitrust trial, according to Bloomberg. Last year, a federal judge ruled that Google maintained an illegal monopoly through its search business. During the trial, it was revealed that Google pays Apple $20 billion a year to use its search engine as the default search option in Safari.
