Google Won’t Renew Pentagon AI Drone Deal After Staff Backlash
- Project Maven contract sparked over 4,000 Googlers to protest
- Cloud CEO Diane Greene tells staff deal will expire next year
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Google decided not to renew its contract with a Pentagon drone program once it expires, after extensive protests from employees of the internet giant.
Diane Greene, head of the cloud business at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, told staff on Friday that the company will let the deal lapse when it runs out in March 2019, according to people familiar with the meeting.