Sep 8, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Google.com Nears Sunset

Plus: AI’s “Inbreeding” Problem, Eat the Bottom Tier

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

The old web is dimming. Google.com, the entry point of the internet for two decades, is sliding toward irrelevance as AI chat takes center stage.

SEARCHING

Google.com’s Blue Links Face Their Last Days

📌 What’s happening: Google product lead Logan Kilpatrick just signaled the end of an era: google.com’s classic search page—online since 1997—is about to be replaced by AI Mode. He dropped a casual “soon :)” as google.com/ai now redirects straight into the chat-first experience. AI Mode is already live in 180+ countries with 100M monthly users in the US and India. Reality check: usage remains small (≈1% of US desktop queries), but its zero-click rate tops 90%.

🧠 How this hits reality: Once AI Mode becomes the default at google.com, the world’s most visited homepage won’t funnel traffic outward—it will answer questions in place. For users, that’s less tab-hopping; for publishers and SEO teams, it’s a structural collapse. Ad budgets follow the eyeballs, and the eyeballs will be parked inside Google’s own interface.

🛎️ Key takeaway: The web’s front door is closing: google.com is set to trade blue links for AI answers, and the ripple will hit every team that ever depended on search as oxygen.

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DATA

AI’s “Inbreeding” Problem: Models Eating Their Own Tail

📌 What’s happening: AI inbreeding happens when models are trained on content that was itself AI-generated. Instead of learning from human data, they chew on their own outputs — biases multiply, diversity collapses, and answers drift into noise. Nvidia just bought Gretel to pump synthetic data into its stack, showing how even the GPU king is betting on “AI feeding AI” to keep the training pipeline alive.

🧠 How this hits reality: The catch is, synthetic shortcuts don’t just pad datasets, they distort them. A system trained on itself becomes average on steroids — safe, bland, and increasingly wrong. Enterprises counting on model upgrades may find each generation less trustworthy, while data-rich incumbents suddenly hold the only moat that matters. If Nvidia’s play works, it rewrites who controls supply; if it backfires, we face an industry-wide degradation spiral.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI promised compounding intelligence — but when models eat their own tail, compounding becomes decay.

CALL CENTER

AI Call Centers Are Eating the Bottom Tier, But Can’t Touch the Hard Stuff

📌 What’s happening: AI has stripped the drudgery out of call centers that agents like TTEC’s Armen Kirakosian no longer click endlessly through menus and often know the customer’s issue before hearing “hello.” Routine “break/fix” work is shifting to bots, but complexity still exposes cracks. Klarna famously replaced 700 service reps with chatbots in 2023, only to rehire humans when customer satisfaction tanked—identity theft cases couldn’t be solved by scripts.

🧠 How this hits reality: AI is gutting the cheap seats - low-skill, repetitive jobs are evaporating fast. But high-stakes, multi-variable cases still demand humans with sharper training—and higher salaries. Replicant’s CEO openly admits the model: bots for 80% of the volume, elite agents for the hard 20%. Banks like BofA are already steering toward hybrid setups, where “Erica” handles billions of chats but punts the toughest calls to specialists.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI killed the $12/hour script reader—but also made the $40/hour problem-solver indispensable.

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