Google 'panic': Samsung said to consider switching to Bing

Google went into a "panic" after Samsung, the world's second-largest manufacturer of smartphones and a user of the company's Android operating system, said it was considering offering Bing as the default search engine for users, according to a report published by the New York Times on Sunday. The tech giant is scrambling to catch up to rivals Microsoft in the adoption of A.I. services. The threat to Google's $162 billion business is reportedly pushing the company to revamp its search products, including creating an entirely new A.I.-powered search engine. Google's drive to compete contrasts with comments from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai in an interview, also aired on Sunday, in which he suggested that he wanted to avoid a rush to release new A.I. products for fear of how they might affect society. In the interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Alphabet CEO Pichai called artificial intelligence "the most profound technology humanity is working on," adding that it was "more profound than fire or electricity or anything that we've done in the past."