Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Shares in Google\u2019s parent Alphabet fell by as much as 9 per cent on Wednesday after a top Apple executive said the iPhone maker was \u201clooking at\u201d introducing alternative search engines for its web browser powered by artificial intelligence. Eddy Cue, Apple\u2019s senior vice-president of services, told a US court that the company was talking to AI start-ups such as Perplexity about offering their search tools as an alternative to Google.Cue said that Apple planned to \u201cadd them to the list\u201d of tools that iPhone and iPad owners can choose to set as their preferred option to search the web through its Safari browser, without giving a timeframe for the potential move. Apple was also considering adding AI services from China\u2019s DeepSeek to the iPhone, he said, among other options.A shift to new search providers would threaten Alphabet\u2019s multibillion-dollar relationship with Apple, under which Google is the default search engine for iPhones and the Safari browsers. The deal brings Google hundreds of millions of users and boosts its advertising business.Shares in Alphabet were down nearly 8 per cent in early-afternoon trading in New York, while Apple fell by almost 2 per cent. The share price falls came after Bloomberg earlier reported Cue\u2019s comments.Cue was testifying as part of a hearing to determine antitrust remedies after the US Department of Justice\u2019s legal victory against Google last year. A federal judge ruled last August that Google maintained an illegal monopoly in search through deals with wireless carriers, browser developers and device manufacturers.Apple stands to take a multibillion-dollar hit to its profits if its deal with Google is unwound as a result of the ruling.Google pays as much as $20bn a year to Apple to be its default search engine. The long-standing deal between the two Silicon Valley companies was central to the US government\u2019s case.Apple has introduced several new generative AI tools to the iPhone over the past year, including access to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT through its Siri assistant. However, other features, including a broader upgrade to Siri, have been delayed, fuelling fears among some investors that Apple is falling behind rivals such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft in the generative AI race.AI tools offer users complete written answers to search queries, backed up by supporting links, rather than Google\u2019s traditional list of web pages. Google has also upgraded its search engine to incorporate results using generative AI.In Wednesday\u2019s testimony, Cue said that AI had opened the door to serious competition to Google in search for the first time and that Apple had discussed adding various AI features to the iPhone from a range of new providers, including Perplexity, Anthropic, China\u2019s DeepSeek and Elon Musk\u2019s xAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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