"The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright, trounces the competition, and did so because they tiptoed around antitrust legislation and made everyone think they were the underdogs."
Can you break that out a little? Did they avoid antitrust legs on AI or do you mean historically?
They already got bailed out on the Chrome antitrust trial because the judge thought AI was going to disrupt search anyway.
And of course it is, though Google may be a prime beneficiary.