Two headlines came out of Google this week — and most people are reading them as separate stories. They are one. Google is raising eighty billion dollars to build AI infrastructure. That infrastructure is already live, and it is dismantling the way your company gets discovered, evaluated, and chosen by buyers. Google is not updating search. It is replacing it.

This episode covers: Google's eighty-billion-dollar equity raise (including a ten-billion-dollar placement to Berkshire Hathaway); what AI Mode and AI Overviews mean for business discovery; why ninety-three percent of AI Mode queries end without a click; what GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — actually requires; and two concrete actions for your desk this week.