TNB Tech Minute: Google Fires Employees for Protesting Cloud Deal with Israel

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

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0:18.7	Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Thursday, April 18th.
0:22.4	I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal. minute for Thursday, April 18th.
0:22.5	I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.4	Google says it fired 28 employees who protested
0:28.4	against the company's cloud deal with the Israeli government.
0:31.6	In a company-wide email, Vice President for Global Security, Chris Racko, said Google dismiss
0:36.6	the employees after an investigation found they were involved in the protests at the company's offices
0:41.2	in New York and Sunnyvale, California.
0:43.0	He wrote that the protests were, quote, unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made coworkers feel threatened.
0:49.0	No tech for apartheid, the group that organized the protests, said in a statement that it attributed
0:54.2	to Google workers involved in the campaign that, quote, Google values its 1.2 billion dollar
0:59.1	contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers.
1:04.0	Israel has denounced claims that it is committing genocide against Palestinians.
1:08.6	Meta has released its latest publicly available artificial intelligence model called Lama 3.
1:14.2	The company's new AI tool will be featured more prominently on its apps and will be integrated
1:18.5	into search functions on its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
1:23.8	The company said the smallest version of Lama 3
1:26.0	is as powerful as the largest version of its predecessor.
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