Inside Google’s Pentagon AI Deal: Why “Any Lawful Purpose” Sparked Employee Backlash—and What’s Changed Since Project Maven
Google’s agreement to deploy Gemini on U.S. military classified networks revives an old fault line inside the company: where to draw the boundary between commercial AI and national security work. The contract’s “any lawful purpose” clause, reportedly insisted on by the Pentagon, triggered an internal open letter with hundreds of signatures—yet the company is moving…