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.
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.