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The Pentagon announced on May 1, 2026 that it had contracted seven AI companies — Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, SpaceX, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Reflection AI — to deploy artificial intelligence tools on classified US military networks, despite Anthropic declining the same contract citing autonomous weapons concerns.

The US military is using AI tools during Iran war. But Pentagon's collaboration with tech companies goes back decades.

Leaked Finance Ministry documents reveal Amazon agreed to unusual contract controls allowing Israel to use its technology even in breach of Amazon's own terms of service.

The $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract between Israel and Amazon/Google contractually forbids Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure.

American Baptist Home Mission Societies filed a shareholder resolution asking Amazon's board to assess whether its AI and cloud contracts with the Israeli military align with its responsible AI policies.

AWS signed a letter of intent to lease land near Netanya to build a new 60,000 sqm data center that could double its Israel processing capacity by 2030.

An investigation confirmed that both Google and Amazon violated their own published terms of service under Project Nimbus, including an obligation to secretly notify Israel of any foreign court orders to access data stored on their platforms.

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Internal documents show Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israeli weapons manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and IAI throughout 2024 and 2025 while they produced munitions used in Gaza.

Amazon terminated Palestinian engineer Ahmed Shahrour after a five-week suspension for publicly protesting the company's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government and military.

Amazon suspended software engineer Ahmed Shahrour within hours of him publishing an open letter to company leadership criticising Project Nimbus and Amazon's contracts with Israel, raising concerns about worker retaliation.

A Palestinian software engineer at Amazon says he was suspended this week after calling on colleagues to protest the company's role in the "Project Nimbus" contract with Israel. Amazon cast the situation as a workplace conduct matter, not a political speech issue.

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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.

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.

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.'

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.

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Al-Shabaka policy brief documents Palantir developing TITAN (Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node), a next-generation AI/ML targeting ground station, and partnering with Amazon Web Services to deliver warfighting capabilities to military clients including Israel.

A 63-page Israeli government procurement document shows two leading state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers, IAI and Rafael, are required to use Amazon and Google for all cloud computing needs.

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.

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.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are providing cloud computing services to the Israeli military, powering surveillance and targeting systems used in Gaza.

More than 1,700 Amazon employees signed a petition to CEO Andy Jassy in December 2023 demanding the company cancel Project Nimbus, the secretive $1.2B contract with Israel that may be providing tech for Israeli forces in Gaza.

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More than 1,700 Amazon employees petitioned CEO Andy Jassy calling for the company to rescind all contracts with the Israeli military and call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Workers from Google and Amazon staged joint protests at the AWS Summit in New York in July 2023, demanding both companies cancel Project Nimbus, the $1.2B cloud and AI contract with the Israeli government and military.