This was the backdrop for Google I/O 2024: a tech industry rapidly coalescing around generative AI, and Google trying to claw back its dominant position and placate investors. The most important announcement at Google I/O 2024 was probably the AI Overview in Google Search. Google couldn't actually fix the AI Overviews without updates to the underlying AI model, so they were simply turned off for searches with incorrect results, usually after the AI answer went viral.