Google engineer resigns over AI acceleration work
Read original source →robert.ocallahan.orgRobert O'Callahan resigned from Google on 24 September 2026, saying his team's goal of making AI cheaper and lower-latency is not good for people right now. He says he explored influencing events from within GDM but the effect was not strong.
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