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> Most agent actions on our public API are low-risk and reversible. Software engineering accounted for nearly 50% of agentic activity, but we saw emerging usage in healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity.

via Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy

this doesn’t answer your question, but maybe Google is comfortable with driving traffic and dependency through their platform until they can do something like this

https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

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> (e.g. approximately nobody who is receiving them is paying for those summaries at the top of search results)

Nobody is paying for Search. According to Google's earnings reports - AI Overviews is increasing overall clicks on ads and overall search volume.

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So, apparently switching to Kagi continues to pay in dividends, elegantly.

No ads, no forced AI overview, no profit centric reordering of results, plus being able to reorder results personally, and more.

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