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Over 600 Google Workers Urge the Company to Cut Ties With Israeli Tech Conference
WIRED reviewed a letter showing hundreds of Google workers demanding the company drop its sponsorship of MindTheTech, a conference in New York this week that promotes Israeli tech companies.
It aims to highlight the resilience of the Israeli tech industry, especially in the face of Israel’s economic downturn following the attacks by Hamas militants on October 7 last year. Zelda Montes, a software engineer at YouTube who attended a protest Monday outside the conference and, told WIRED that worker solidarity is especially important against the context of No Tech for Apartheid allege that the terms of the Nimbus contract could allow cloud technologies from the US companies, including artificial intelligence tools, to be used for military purposes.
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