Google updated its AI principles, removing a pledge to avoid harmful applications like weapons and surveillance, signaling a shift in policy.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michael Wiacek, the 40-year-old founder and CEO of Stairwell in Mountain View, California. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Named BigQuery metastore, the fully managed unified metadata service will provide processing engine interoperability while enabling governance, Google principal engineer Yuri Volobuev and senior ...

Last week, Google quietly abandoned a long-standing commitment to not use artificial intelligence ... technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm weapons or other technologies whose ...