STANFORD STUDENTS SUPPORT WORKER DEMANDS—This past Sunday, hundreds of Stanford graduates walked out on Google CEO and genocide profiteer Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech. Afraid of the protests other AI executives have faced this graduation season, Pichai made a point to not mention AI at all during his commencement speech — but he studied for the wrong test. The graduates, led by @stanfordsjp, chanted “FREE FREE PALESTINE” because Stanford students’ main concern isn’t general AI anxiety, it’s that Google (and Amazon) sell their data-crunching AI engines to the highest bidder, including genocidal entities like the Israeli military as it wages its genocide in Gaza and CBP and ICE as they terrorize immigrants here in the U.S. Google workers with No Tech for Apartheid were proud to support Stanford student organizing in solidarity with our worker demands for a demilitarized Google. We know the importance of bringing our worker movement against tech-powered violence from the workplace to the streets and building the labor-community relationships and power that we know we need to win. For years, in the face of continuous resistance from Google workers, Sundar Pichai has knowingly sold Google AI and Cloud technology to the U.S./Israeli surveillance and war machines. Because of the deep relationships between Big Tech monopolies and top research institutions, like Stanford, student organizing and tech worker organizing can go hand-in-hand in the fight against tech billionaire-powered militarism – from Gaza to the U.S./Mexico border wall. Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join No Tech for Apartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (link in bio)
CALL TO ACTION - Bay Area community members, support Stanford students as they walk out on their commencement speaker Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and a genocide, war, and ICE profiteer. Join them at the parallel People’s Commencement featuring a commencement speech by activist and scholar Mahmoud Khalil! In the past year, Google’s AI has empowered the IOF to process drone footage of the Gaza genocide — actively powering mass death. YouTube is profiting from Israeli government ads that whitewashes the starvation blockade of Gaza. Google fuels DHS and ICE’s brutal raids and CBP’s state terror across the U.S. Most recently, DeepMind just greenlit a no‑red‑lines Pentagon contract, betraying its own researchers’ pleas to stop arming war. Stanford students are organizing a walk-out and parallel ceremony to protest Sundar Pichai’s direct complicity in these impacts of Google’s technology and contracts. As community members, let us join them in support at their People’s Commencement, featuring Mahmoud Khalil, the activist, scholar, and Columbia’s 2024 encampment negotiator, who was illegally detained by ICE in 2025 and an ongoing target of the Trump administration. To attend the People’s Commencement, head to the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino at 11:30 AM, whether you are walking out with the students, or coming just for the parallel event. It is open invite and open seating. See you there!!
NEW-@politico reports on yesterday’s shareholder meeting for @google parent company Alphabet, where investors presented a resolution “asking the board of directors to release a public report on how the company’s services may enable surveillance, censorship and military operations.” 42 organizations and 14 individuals have supported the proposal. Recently, Norges Bank—the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund—voted in favor of this resolution, citing that @google’s board should account for “environmental and social consequences of its operations and products.” These demands come after Google’s relentless pursuit of military and defense contracts, including cloud infrastructure to create round the clock surveillance at the U.S. Mexico border for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the use of Gemini AI tools in classified defense work for the U.S. Pentagon, and Project Nimbus, Google and @amazon ‘s $1.2 billion join contract to provide cloud computing and AI technology to the Israeli government and military as they commit genocide in Gaza. This day is historic: #NoTechForApartheid organizer and former DeepMind research scientist John Palowitch presented the resolution to shareholders, marking a shift in how worker power—such as DeepMind workers recent vote to unionize in the UK—may engage shareholders to leverage their own immense financial power against military contracts. As workers of conscience, we demand that our labor not be used in crimes against humanity. We call for an end to the use of @google cloud and AI tools in military contracts, and continue to organize until no Google product is complicit in mass surveillance, state violence, and genocide. Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
NEW- @fortunemag reports that Norges Bank (NBIM), a major institutional investor of @google parent company Alphabet and manager of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, voted in favor of a shareholder resolution calling for increased transparency into “the risks posed by government use of Google’s Cloud and AI technology.” The resolution has already been backed by an investor coalition of 42 organizations and 14 individuals, holding over $2.2 billion dollars in Alphabet shares. In their supporting vote, NBIM stated that @google’s board should account for “environmental and social consequences of its operations and products” and called for “reasonable disclosure.” Despite years of pursuing military and surveillance development, Google once upheld a facade of goodwill through AI principles which claimed to prohibit the development of weapons. The mask came off in 2025: a month into Trump’s presidency, these AI principles banning technology for weaponry quietly disappeared. Investors cite the loss of these principles as well as Project Nimbus, @google and @amazon’s $1.2B contract to supply AI and cloud technology to the Israeli government and military, as a source of growing concern on the use of Google products. This coalition of support connects the immense financial power of investors and shareholders to the organizing efforts of workers with #NoTechForApartheid as we tirelessly demand for an end to the use of our labor in powering genocide, surveillance, and violence. @google may attempt to ignore their own workers, users, and now even investors, but the pressure is mounting. We will only continue to build our worker power as we fight for an end to Google’s participation in the war machine. Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
confronted Blaise Agüera y Arcas, the CTO of Technology & Society at Google before his Tech Talk at Google Zurich on May 21st, 2026. We asked him directly about Project Nimbus and providing AI for mass human rights violations in Gaza. He refused to provide any answers. Project Nimbus is the $1.2 Billion dollar contract Google and Amazon signed with Israeli government and military providing Cloud and AI technology services. Project Nimbus is the digital backbone of the Zionist settler colonial project and ongoing genocide in Palestine. Google and Google execs will be held accountable for their complicity in war crimes. They shall not be allowed to present themselves as doing “AI for Good” while profiting from mass human rights violations!! #notechforapartheid #aiforgood
NEW- investors of @google parent company Alphabet call for safeguards surrounding uses of its AI and cloud technology, per @reuters. Following Google’s refusal to disclose details on contracts with government entities, a group of shareholders representing 42 organizations and 14 individuals drafted a letter demanding greater transparency on how @google cloud services is used by governments to advance surveillance. These demands come after Google’s relentless pursuit of military and defense contracts, including cloud infrastructure to create round the clock surveillance at the U.S. Mexico border for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the use of Gemini AI tools in classified defense work for the U.S. Pentagon, and Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion joint contract to provide cloud computing and AI technology to the Israeli government and military as they commit genocide in Gaza. Concerned shareholders join the voices of thousands of tech workers who demand that their labor not be used in mass surveillance, state violence, and crimes against humanity. @google continues to ignore our calls, prioritizing blood money over moral code, but workers won’t be silent: join us as we organize to end this war machine. Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
BREAKING—UK Google DeepMind workers with @utaw_uk have formally requested union recognition from management — backed by a 98% vote in favor. They’re seeking to become the first frontier AI lab workforce in the world to unionize. Their demands are not centered around pay and conditions: DeepMind UK workers want an end to Google AI being used by Israel and the US military, restoration of the company’s scrapped commitment not to build AI weapons or surveillance tools, an independent ethics oversight body, and the right to refuse projects on moral grounds. U.S. Google workers with No Tech for Apartheid stand in unwavering solidarity with our coworkers at Google DeepMind UK who are unionizing on the basis of ethics and over the impacts of their labor — and who specifically cite refusal for their labor to continue powering Google’s role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the company’s increasing military contracts as the driving force behind their unionization bid. Just last month, Google signed a deal with Trump’s Pentagon to allow its Gemini AI models to be applied in any and all classified military operations — despite overwhelming dissent from Google workers. This decision represents Google’s deepening commitment to profiting from surveillance, violence, and war–all without transparency or accountability, even to its own workers. That’s what makes Google DeepMind workers with @utaw_uk’s union recognition a historic moment in tech worker organizing history. At a moment when AI capabilities are advancing faster than accountability, workers at the frontier are asking a vital question: who decides how this technology gets used and how do we keep its power in check? They want ethics built in, not bolted on. And they’re prepared to strike to make it happen. Follow and support Google DeepMind workers with @utaw_uk !
BREAKING—Over 650 Google workers, mostly working in Google DeepMind & Google Cloud, sent an emergency joint letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai this morning demanding the company reject the Pentagon’s deal to deploy Google AI tech in classified military operations. Over 20 directors, senior directors and vice presidents signed the letter. The letter warns that this contract would mark a dangerous turn in the relationship between the Google and the Pentagon–one that raises unacceptable & unprecedented risk of harm. “Classified workloads are by definition opaque,” said a Google DeepMind worker. “Right now, there’s no way to ensure that our tools wouldn‘t be leveraged to cause terrible harms or erode civil liberties [..] We’re talking about things like targeting civilians.” Google already holds a contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) on non-classified workloads, through a program known as genAI.mil. The proposed new deal would expand these capabilities, including the use of Gemini, Google’s flagship AI model into classified domains. While Google has allegedly proposed contractual language to prevent use of its systems for autonomous lethal weapons and domestic mass surveillance, enforcing these provisions in practice is technically unfeasible, workers argue. Continued worker pushback comes at the heels of almost 1,600 Google workers demanding the company cut ties with ICE/CBP as reports emerge related to Google tech being used as part of ICE raids. Commercial Google AI models were also implicated in recent US military operations, including the raid targeting Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and in military attacks on Iran. “I joined Google DeepMind because I believed in the mission of advancing science to benefit humanity” said Sofia Liguori, a research engineer at Google DeepMind. “It is deeply disheartening to see those efforts redirected towards accelerating warfare everywhere, from Gaza to Iran.” Are you a FTE Google worker? You can still sign the letter at go/benefit-humanity Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers and organize around anti-militarism? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
NEW- @theinformation reports on @google and the U.S. Pentagon’s talks to deploy Google’s Gemini for classified defense work. Despite increasing concerns from workers on the use of the technology we develop in violence and warfare, Google continues to embed itself into the war machinery of the United States. This latest move seeks to expand Gemini’s work into “classified settings”—a term that, in practice, means bomb target selection and illegal kidnappings of the presidents of other nations. While Google claims to include red lines in their negotiations, a similar contract the Pentagon has signed with OpenAI provides a path for “all lawful use cases,” circumventing restrictions. For years, Google has taken steps to embed itself into the operations of the U.S. military despite AI principles it had developed in 2018 to prevent such work. From the article: “But only weeks after Donald Trump began his second presidential term in early 2025, the company seemed to have a change of heart. It altered those principles, removing the explicit provisions against using AI for weapons and surveillance. […] In July, the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office awarded Google a contract worth up to $200 million for an AI pilot program—a contract later amended to allow for all lawful uses. […] In December, Google’s Gemini was the first AI model added to GenAI.mil, the military’s AI platform for unclassified data. […] Google is also one of more than 1,000 companies awarded a contract for Golden Dome, Trump’s planned missile defense system.” In February, worker organizations representing +700,000 tech sector employees published a joint statement, calling on their companies to reject the Pentagon’s demands. “We invite workers to join us in organizing to ensure our leadership does not use our labor for mass surveillance, weaponry, and war.” READ THE FULL STATEMENT: medium.com/@notechforapartheid/jointstatement (LINK IN BIO) Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
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