Did Sam Altman Trick Google Into Destroying Its Own Business?
A Fortune commentary published this week makes the most explosive argument in AI journalism of 2026: Sam Altman deliberately reframed AI as an intelligent mind rather than an expensive pattern-matching system — and panicked Sundar Pichai into embedding AI Overviews into Google Search, systematically destroying the $237 billion advertising revenue that is Google’s entire commercial foundation. gafam.ai examines the argument — and what it means for Europe.