"Google’s illegal conduct has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc over the marketplace to ensure that—no matter what occurs—Google always wins," the DOJ filing says. To that end, the government maintains that Chrome must go if the playing field is to be made level again.

As part of the remedies phase of its antitrust case against Google, the DOJ says prohibiting Google’s AI investments could 'cause unintended consequences in the evolving AI space.'