Google has signed a deal with the Pentagon to provide its artificial intelligence (AI) models for classified work, despite concerns raised by hundreds of employees this week over the terms. The Pentagon reached an agreement with Google that would allow the department to use the company’s AI models for “any lawful governmental purpose,

The Defense Department has made agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Reflection, according to an announcement this morning.

In an open letter, Google workers say doing a deal with the Department of Defense would hurt the tech giant's reputation.

Hundreds of employees at Google are pressing the company’s CEO to reject any deal with the Pentagon to use the company’s artificial intelligence in classified settings, warning of the same