There's a 'submarine trend' in the tech world, and it's affecting nearly every company you know (AMZN, AAPL, FB, NFLX, GOOGL)

Google is a good example. As nearly every other flagship phone released this year used two camera lenses to create a blurry background in photos. Google used a single lens on its Pixel 2 phones and relied on its AI software to blur the backgrounds of photos. Even though AI enabled a core feature of one of the company's flagship products, it's hard to attribute what direct impact the AI systems had on sales of the phone.