After two months of saying Yes, Google tells the US government No and withdraws from Pentagon’s $100 million drone contest: We decided not to pursue the bid so that we can…
Google submitted a proposal for a Pentagon prize challenge to build voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms—and then pulled out just weeks after being selected as one of the successful submissions. The company notified the Defense Department on February 11 that it would not participate further, according to Bloomberg, following an internal ethics review. Officially, Google cited…
