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Google has quietly made peace with the Pentagon, and not everyone inside the company is happy about it. More than six hundred employees signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to keep Google's AI out of classified military operations. The tension reflects a broader reckoning across Silicon Valley over where commercial AI ends and defense technology begins.
That question of how AI gets shaped and by whom is also playing out in the hiring halls of major AI labs. Philosophy majors are landing well-paying roles at companies like OpenAI and Google DeepMind, brought in to help align chatbots with human values. Critics, though, are asking whether these hires carry real institutional weight or serve mostly as ethical window dressing.
And speaking of OpenAI, Sam Altman says he plans to throw a launch party for GPT-five point five, and he did something unusual to prepare for it — he asked the model what it would want at its own celebration. The system came back with detailed, specific suggestions that Altman described as beautiful but strange, a word that captures something genuinely unresolved about where these systems are headed.
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