There you have it! 600 Google employees just signed a letter demanding Sundar Pichai block the Pe…
April 28, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! 600 Google employees just signed a letter demanding Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using Gemini for classified operations. Directors, VPs, DeepMind researchers.
Sound familiar?
In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed Project #Maven — a computer vision tool to help warfighters analyze drone footage. Not a weapons system. Google caved. Walked away from the Pentagon.
Then opened an AI research lab in Beijing.
Let that sink in.
Those same employees who organized petitions against helping the U.S. military? Silent when Google was building Project Dragonfly — a censored search engine for the Chinese Communist Party. No ethical objection to helping Beijing censor its citizens. Just to helping their own country defend itself.
Rep. Will Hurd — former CIA officer, then-chairman of the House IT subcommittee — publicly asked whether Chinese influence operations manipulated that decision. Peter Thiel called Google's Beijing AI lab "the Manhattan Project for AI" — for China. Called it treasonous. Demanded FBI and CIA investigate.
I was inside the Pentagon when Maven died. Watched it happen in real time.
The cost? $13 billion in defense AI revenue Google forfeited. Straight to Microsoft and Amazon.
Now Google is trying to come back. Classified Gemini deployment. 3 million Pentagon personnel. And 600 employees want to blow it up. Again.
Of course, this is even funnier when you know that Emil Michael got the Pentagon locked in to Gemini with his silly GenAI.mil nonsense.
A DISGRACE.
Who benefits when American companies refuse to work with the American military?
Not the warfighter. Not the taxpayer.
Beijing.
The PLA does not do employee petitions. They build.
This is the collision I write about in my book, REPLACEMENT — out around end of July. The moment American innovation turned against American defense. Not by accident. By design.
What are your thoughts?
Sound familiar?
In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed Project #Maven — a computer vision tool to help warfighters analyze drone footage. Not a weapons system. Google caved. Walked away from the Pentagon.
Then opened an AI research lab in Beijing.
Let that sink in.
Those same employees who organized petitions against helping the U.S. military? Silent when Google was building Project Dragonfly — a censored search engine for the Chinese Communist Party. No ethical objection to helping Beijing censor its citizens. Just to helping their own country defend itself.
Rep. Will Hurd — former CIA officer, then-chairman of the House IT subcommittee — publicly asked whether Chinese influence operations manipulated that decision. Peter Thiel called Google's Beijing AI lab "the Manhattan Project for AI" — for China. Called it treasonous. Demanded FBI and CIA investigate.
I was inside the Pentagon when Maven died. Watched it happen in real time.
The cost? $13 billion in defense AI revenue Google forfeited. Straight to Microsoft and Amazon.
Now Google is trying to come back. Classified Gemini deployment. 3 million Pentagon personnel. And 600 employees want to blow it up. Again.
Of course, this is even funnier when you know that Emil Michael got the Pentagon locked in to Gemini with his silly GenAI.mil nonsense.
A DISGRACE.
Who benefits when American companies refuse to work with the American military?
Not the warfighter. Not the taxpayer.
Beijing.
The PLA does not do employee petitions. They build.
This is the collision I write about in my book, REPLACEMENT — out around end of July. The moment American innovation turned against American defense. Not by accident. By design.
What are your thoughts?