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1. Google and the Pentagon: Google's artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon is creating internal strife at the company, per the New York Times: • The Maven program, which develops A.I. that could be used to improve the targeting of the military's drone strikes, has "fractured Google's work force, fueled heated staff meetings and internal exchanges, and prompted some employees to resign." • "To proceed with big defense contracts could drive away brainy experts in artificial intelligence; to reject such work would deprive it of a potentially huge business."