Pro Weekly: AI Efforts Drive Google-Apple Sentiment Split

What’s driving reader outlooks for tech giants including Google, Apple and Meta this month? You can probably guess: How much they’re doing (or at least talking about doing) to get ahead in AI. 

In our June survey, subscribers said they were a lot more optimistic about Google’s prospects compared with our survey the previous month. The share of Google optimists rose to 43% in June from 37% percent a month earlier, while pessimists fell to 21% from 29%.