You're talking about maybe ~1% of search that Bing Chat is practically available to (in Europe).

It's a lot less risky for Microsoft to do what they did than for Google to just open the floodgates in Europe.

If Google does something on Chrome OS - the EU isn't going to scrutinize it the same way if MS does something on Windows.

Same, but opposite for Bing vs Google Search.

Better than have the whole product fail because competitors won the market with a global launch.

That's just how it works. That stuff takes months, so do you prefer to withhold it from the US until that's all completed? In a competitive environment that moves quickly, that's not an option.

While Google was caught flat-footed and has had to rush this in response.

I'm basing this just on what I've read, of course.

And if that's the case, I don't think my explanation is invalidated at all, nor "trivially".

I'm referring to ChatGPT and Bing integration, which is very recent. That was a big surprise to everyone AFAIK.

"We’re finding ways to bring it into Azure and our mainstream products" "And in the same way that you type a question into a search engine and then get to decide which result to click on, GPT-3 returns multiple suggestions for Power Fx formulas."

They've been telegraphing this in the open for about 2 years

Not a general vague sense of AI investment. You can't do legal review on a generalized "direction", no matter how telegraphed you think it is.

Which lawyer you get seems to be a sort of dice roll that perhaps one could understand if one were a lawyer.

I find it funny when massive corporations say they can’t legally figure stuff out and the other massive corporations do it.

It must feel back to be the lawyer who can’t work this stuff out when other lawyers can. Perhaps similar to when I think some programming is impossible and then see it done in the wild in production.