** Shares of Apple AAPL.O down 2% to $194.26 and Alphabet GOOGL.O fall 5.6% to $155.96
** Apple is "actively looking at" reshaping Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, Bloomberg News reports
** Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, said that searches on Safari dipped for the first time in April during a testimony in the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit against GOOGL - report
** Cue said he believes that AI search providers, including OpenAI, Perplexity AI and Anthropic, will eventually replace standard search engines like Google, Bloomberg says
** AAPL down ~21%, while GOOGL has fallen 13.8% YTD
(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City)
((Juby.Babu@thomsonreuters.com;))
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