Start Up No.2668: Google Search goes AI-first, Samsung boss sees end to RAM drought, the coming oil shock, EV sales leap, and more

The mathematician Paul Erdős posed many fascinating problems for his peers – and now OpenAI has solved an important one. CC-licensed photo by Erik on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 9 links for you. Plane to see. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. Google Search as you know it is over • TechCrunch Sarah Perez: » The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centred around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago. Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive…