Nilay Patel of The Verge had a great one-on-one conversation with Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO. Nilay did put on the pressure around how the changes with AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search are impacting publishers in a very negative way, but Sundar seemed unconvinced that web publishing is dead.
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