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>but nowhere in the piece does it mention Google's cloud services.

Didn't Google kowtow to employee-activists who didn't want Google to work with the US military?

That was for a different program (AI/ML stuff).

They dropped out of JEDI because they couldn't meet a bunch of contract provisions in the RFP.

No, the primary stated reason was that it wasn't compatible with their AI Principles. Secondary reason was contract. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-heres-why-were-pulling-...

Well, that's just a clever PR lipservice move. They couldn't win the contract because they didn't have the ability to, so rather than failing embarrassingly, they blamed their exit on their brand-new AI principles to make themselves look good. This was the consensus on HN at the time.

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