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Following whistleblower revelations in February 2026, Alphabet's parent removed guidelines that previously banned AI applications 'likely to cause harm,' drawing condemnation from Amnesty International; Google had already removed its weapons and surveillance prohibition in early 2025.

A whistleblower SEC complaint alleges that in July 2024, an IDF-email-addressed customer asked Google Cloud support to fix bugs in Gemini AI for identifying drones, armored vehicles, and soldiers in aerial footage, with a second Google staffer copied in who worked on the IDF's Google Cloud account.

In July 2024, Google's cloud division received a support request from an IDF email address asking for help making Gemini more reliable at identifying drones, armored vehicles, and soldiers in aerial video footage, with staff responding and conducting internal tests.

A UN Special Rapporteur report titled 'From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide' identifies Alphabet (Google) among 48 corporate actors, describing how it grants Israel access to cloud and AI technologies enhancing surveillance and military decision-making.

Hundreds of DeepMind employees in London formally united to pressure Google over its defense contracts with Israel, with at least five DeepMind employees resigning over such projects in the prior two months.

Microsoft, Amazon and Google are among those helping Israel commit genocide in Gaza, according to a landmark report by UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

Shareholders voted on Proposal 9 at Alphabet's June 6, 2025 annual meeting, which called for an independent audit of Google's due diligence processes for customer use of products in conflict zones, with the board recommending a vote against the measure.

A confidential internal report reveals Google knew before signing Project Nimbus that it could not monitor or prevent Israel from using its cloud and AI tools to harm Palestinians, and that the contract required unprecedented joint drills and intelligence sharing with Israeli security.

Alphabet completed its $32 billion acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz — its largest-ever acquisition — whose four founders all served in Israel's elite military intelligence Unit 8200.

Shareholders filed Proposal 9 at Alphabet's 2025 AGM calling for an independent third-party audit on whether customers' use of Google products for surveillance or military purposes contributes to human rights harms, explicitly citing Project Nimbus and Israel-related allegations.

Alphabet agreed to acquire Israeli-founded cybersecurity unicorn Wiz for $32 billion in cash, described as the largest-ever purchase of an Israeli tech company, hailed in Israel as a sign of technological resilience during wartime.

Reuters reports Alphabet entered advanced negotiations to acquire Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for over $30 billion, its largest potential acquisition, after Wiz declined a $23 billion offer in July 2024 over antitrust concerns.

No Tech for Apartheid condemned Google executives' removal of AI principles restricting weapons and surveillance use, calling it a direct pivot toward military contracting after the company fired 50 colleagues who staged historic sit-ins over Project Nimbus.

Records from 2024 show Google employees noticed a rise in IDF access requests for AI tools including Gemini and Vertex AI, with one employee warning that delays could push the Israeli military toward Amazon.

Documents show that from October 2023 through at least November 2024, the IDF made repeated requests to Google for access to AI tools including Vertex AI and Gemini, with Google processing these requests throughout the war.

Documents obtained by the Washington Post show Google employees worked from the earliest weeks of the Israel-Gaza war to provide the IDF with access to Vertex AI and later Gemini AI, contrary to Google's public statements about non-military workloads.

Google and Amazon employees published an open letter in The Guardian warning that Project Nimbus 'allows for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians, and facilitates expansion of Israel's illegal settlements on Palestinian land.'

The Israeli Government Advertising Agency paid Google to place ads discrediting UNRWA atop search results; one Google employee told Wired the company chose not to block the ads fearing it could interfere with future business with Israel.

An IDF commander stated that Google, AWS, and Microsoft public clouds provided 'very significant operational effectiveness' in Gaza, with the military using Project Nimbus infrastructure to supplement its overloaded operational cloud during the ground invasion of October 2023.

Al Jazeera explains Project Nimbus as a $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing, AI, and technology services to the Israeli government and military, with contract terms preventing Google or Amazon from halting services to any Israeli entity.

Google fired 28 employees after sit-in protests against Project Nimbus, with No Tech for Apartheid vowing to continue organizing until the company drops the contract and 'stops powering this genocide.'

Arrested Google employees described sit-ins at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices where workers occupied Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office, demanding Google withdraw from Project Nimbus.

Investors for Human Rights filed shareholder proposals at Alphabet and Amazon citing Project Nimbus as potentially being used to maintain apartheid and commit war crimes against Palestinians since October 7, 2023.