Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend - June 5th, 2026

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This is Bloomberg Businessweek Daily, reporting from the magazine that helps global leaders stay ahead, with insight on the people, companies, and trends shaping today's complex economy. Plus, global business, finance, and tech news as it happens. Bloomberg Businessweek Daily, with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec on Bloomberg Radio.

**Carol Massar** (0:23)
Hi, everyone. Welcome to the weekend edition of Bloomberg Businessweek. This week, we were live at the Bloomberg Tech Summit in San Francisco.

**Tim Stenovec** (0:30)
The summit brings together leaders across tech and business. It brings insightful conversations and connections around today's cutting-edge technologies and how they affect business and beyond.

**Carol Massar** (0:39)
Today, we're going to bring you some of our favorite conversations from the event. We'll hear from leaders across the tech sector, including CEOs, tech executives, and even a Grammy Award-winning rapper and producer. First up this hour, we spoke with Sameer Samat, President of the Android Ecosystem at Google.

**Tim Stenovec** (0:56)
How do you position Android in the United States versus how you position it globally? Where is more widely adopted?

**Sameer Samat** (1:04)
Well, Android is an open-source operating system, which is really great because it allows people to build all kinds of different devices. So, of course, we know that Android is popular for phones today, where there's over three and a half billion Android devices that are used every day. It's the most widely used operating system in the world. But Android is so much more than phones. People use it for cars, they use it for televisions, they use it for smart watches and all kinds of new devices, including some smart glasses that we're working on for later this year as well. So, it's really become much more than phones and it's a whole ecosystem.

**Carol Massar** (1:35)
How do you think about an operating system within an AI world that is we're still kind of figuring it out, right? We're all finding our way here.

**Sameer Samat** (1:42)
Well, it's changing a lot. Things are changing all around us. And I think the way we think about this moment is, we're moving from an operating system to what I call an intelligence system, one that is able to be more predictive and more helpful in the moment for you. So, instead of making you the micro manager of your device, which is the way I think computing has worked for 40 years, you have the idea in your head and you use a pointing device or taps to take that idea and do all the things you need to do to get things done. In this new AI era, how can we actually make the system much smarter? So, you give it your intention, your goal, and it can translate that into the action that it needs to take to help you get more done.

**Tim Stenovec** (2:24)
Yeah. I want to push on that a little bit because I still think, when right now when a lot of people think about AI, they equate it with LLMs and they think about LLMs, not necessarily as clogged code or helping us buy code, but rather as glorified search engines. That actually does search a lot better than we've grown up using.
What is the value proposition for an ecosystem in the world of AI? Because you're explaining this idea of us being more productive as a result of this technology. But I don't even know what that looks like. Is it predictive? Does it know what we want before we want it? What is it?

**Carol Massar** (3:02)
Which gets a little creepy then. Well, it depends. Potentially.

**Sameer Samat** (3:06)
Let me give you one simple example that I used new release of Android with Gemini 4 recently on my Pixel device, which is I had a list of folks that are coming to a barbecue that I'm holding, and next to each person I had how many people are coming in their family, are they vegetarian, are they not vegetarian? The normal thing you do when you're throwing a party, you make this list.

**Tim Stenovec** (3:27)
But where do you put that list? Does that go in Google Docs or something?

**Sameer Samat** (3:30)
I think I just had it in an email that I was writing to myself. We all do sometimes. I asked Gemini working on my Pixel device, can you take this list, analyze it, figure out how many hamburgers, how many hot dogs, how many buns, and then go to Instacart and add it all to my shopping cart, and then let me check it out.
It took that, figured out all the vegetarians, figured out all the things, figured out how many people are coming, how many kids, and it did it for me. That probably saved me, I don't know, six, seven minutes. You add that up multiple times a day throughout all the things that we're doing, and that's really helpful.