At least 1,000 workers at Google DeepMind's London headquarters voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm's technology from being used by Israel and the US military. The union will represent workers if the company recognizes it.
The U.S. Department of Defense signed agreements with eight technology companies—including Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and Google—to deploy AI models on classified military networks as part of building an 'AI-first fighting force.' Anthropic is notably absent after refusing defense contract terms.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly refused to comply with Pentagon demands for unrestricted access to its AI models, saying the company would rather lose its War Department contract than allow its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
