Google's Revolt Over Project Maven

Project Maven was a pathfinding initiative by the DoD to bring artificial intelligence tools to the military. The Google employees revolted and it's interesting because all the press says it was a massive revolt, but I think less than 10 people quit over this. It was very poorly handled. They wound up creating some new guidance for how they would work with the military. And then eventually they brought in a new head of cloud, Thomas Curie,. And he has started to work with themilitary a little bit more. So I'm optimistic about this, but I'd love to hear how Trey feels about it.

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