Google’s Android security head resigns; says: This decision has been easy because it has become…

René Mayrhofer, the engineer who led Google’s Android platform security team as a director before moving into a principal engineer role, has resigned over the company’s decision to let the Pentagon use its Gemini AI for classified military work. His farewell note pulls no punches—he told colleagues that leadership “has lost its moral compass,” the line he used to title the letter itself. The note was first obtained and reported by Business Insider.

Mayrhofer dated the note May 18 and circulated it internally before publishing it on his personal blog, where he says it “spread far wider than he expected.”