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Google's push to put more artificial intelligence front and center in Search may be backfiring in one measurable way. DuckDuckGo says it saw a sustained surge in new installs in the week following Google I/O, suggesting that for some users, more AI in search feels like less of what they actually came for.
On the infrastructure side, Amazon Web Services is making a significant bet on its own silicon. The company says its new Redshift instances, built on Graviton processors, can handle query workloads up to seven times faster than before and more than twice as fast as the previous generation. The timing is deliberate — AWS is positioning this squarely at the growing demand for AI agent workloads in enterprise analytics.
And in the broader market, Bitcoin has slipped to the thirteenth largest asset by value, a notable fall as capital appears to be rotating toward precious metals and semiconductor companies. The weakness through two thousand twenty six raises a real question about whether crypto can hold its place in the portfolio conversation when AI hardware and gold are both telling a more compelling story right now.
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