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Google, AI

Business Insider · 2d

Google employees respond after company drops its promise on AI weapons: 'Are we the baddies?'

After Google scrubbed wording that promised not to use AI for weapons, some staffers slammed the decision in the company's internal message board.

New York Post on MSN · 1d

Google retracts promise not to use AI for weapons or surveillance — prompting employee backlash: ‘Are we the baddies?’

The company’s historical reluctance to engage in military AI projects stems from employee-led protests in 2018, when workers successfully pressured Google to abandon a Pentagon contract known as “Project Maven,” which aimed to enhance drone surveillance capabilities using AI.

SFGATE on MSN · 1d

Google drops 7-year promise not to make AI for weapons

Google, the company once known for including “Don’t be evil” in its code of conduct, just changed its corporate rules to allow the development of artificial intelligence for weaponry. The Mountain View tech giant updated its AI Principles webpage between January 30 and Feb.

Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance

Google’s updated, public AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue applications for weapons and surveillance.

Google, DEI

MSNBC on MSN · 1d

Google becomes latest company to follow Trump’s anti-DEI push

Google is following the Trump administration’s lead on purging diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, cutting mentions of DEI from its annual report and scrapping its goal of hiring applicants from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

The Washington Post on MSN · 2d

Google will end a core DEI program and evaluate others, company says

The change comes after President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and a broader anti-DEI pullback at other big companies.

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

Google Scraps Hiring Targets After Trump’s Anti-DEI Pressure on Government Contractors

The move came in the wake of an executive order aimed in part at pressuring government contractors to scrap their DEI initiatives.

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Google CEO downplays DeepSeek threat as the company plans to spend $75 billion on AI this year

Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to allay concerns about DeepSeek, boasting that Google's own AI models were comparable.

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Google scraps diversity-based hiring targets

Alphabet's Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its ...

Human Rights Watch1d

Google Announces Willingness to Develop AI for Weapons

Google, a company that once went by the motto “don’t be evil,” appears to be changing tack. The tech giant on Tuesday ...

Android Central on MSN3d

Google remembered it is a search company and made the Search widget a lot better

Google is a lot of things, but it started as a search company. It often seems to forget that people want to use Google Search ...

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Google Is About to Cut Employees Again, and It Just Did the 1 Thing Every Company Should Do

Google will offer severance to employees who voluntarily choose to leave its platforms and devices group. In January of 2023 ...

Here’s Where Each Big Tech Company Stands on DEI Efforts in 2025

The shift comes as Big Tech cozies up to the Trump Administration, which has introduced several executive orders aimed at ...

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Google’s Gemini rolls out ‘world’s best’ AI model, free of charge

Google has now given its Gemini app access to a new AI model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. According to the ...

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