AI for warfare: Why Google, Anthropic and rest of big tech is split over Pentagon deals

Google joins the list of AI companies that now allow the US Department of Defense to access its cutting-edge AI technology for “any lawful government purposes”. The development comes a day after several Google employees wrote a letter to its CEO, Sundar Pichai, urging the management to call of any deal that witnesses AI being used for defence purposes. Google, it seems, decided to go ahead with the deal, keeping commercial interests in the spotlight.