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Bun
JavaScript runtime and toolkit created by Oven; acquired by Anthropic in December 2025, remains MIT-licensed. Website ↗
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Donated $50,000 to the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, which organised Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration; the committee's report to the Federal Election Commission lists a donation from Anthropic, PBC received on January 8, 2025.
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A minority stake is funding, not control. Shown for information.
Listed by the White House among the donors funding President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom. According to CNBC, Alphabet is contributing $22 million, about 7% of the project's estimated cost, under the settlement reached with Trump the previous month over his lawsuit against YouTube for banning him from the platform after the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol; the settlement says the money will be contributed on Trump's behalf to the Trust for the National Mall.
Removed Red Dot and similar apps used to report sightings of ICE officials from the Play Store, 404 Media reported, after Apple removed ICEBlock following direct pressure from Justice Department officials.
Response: Google said the apps shared the location of what it described as a vulnerable group that had recently faced a violent act connected to such apps, which 404 Media described as a veiled reference to ICE officials.
Listed by the White House among the donors funding President Donald Trump's ballroom. Individual amounts were not disclosed. The Washington Post later reported that Amazon contributed multiple millions of dollars.
The report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" (A/HRC/59/23) by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, which describes Israel's campaign in Gaza as genocide, names Amazon among the companies giving Israel near government-wide access to cloud and AI technologies. It states that Israel awarded Amazon and Alphabet the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract in 2021, largely funded through Ministry of Defense expenditure, and that the Project Nimbus consortium supplied critical cloud and AI infrastructure when the Israeli military's internal cloud overloaded in October 2023. A 2024 +972 Magazine investigation reported that the Israeli army had stored some intelligence information collected through mass surveillance of Gaza's population on servers managed by Amazon Web Services.
“Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision-making and surveillance and analysis capacities.”
Response: Asked by +972 Magazine, AWS said it was "focused on making the benefits of our world-leading cloud technology available to all our customers". Israel called the report politically motivated and legally baseless.
- Alphabet Inc.via Anthropic (backed by) → Google (subsidiary of)· 2 Jul 2025Support for war crimesContested
The report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" (A/HRC/59/23) by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, which describes Israel's campaign in Gaza as genocide, names Alphabet (Google) among the companies giving Israel near government-wide access to cloud and AI technologies. It states that Israel awarded Alphabet and Amazon the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract in 2021, largely funded through Ministry of Defense expenditure, and that the Project Nimbus consortium supplied critical cloud and AI infrastructure when the Israeli military's internal cloud overloaded in October 2023.
“Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision-making and surveillance and analysis capacities.”
Response: Google has said of Project Nimbus: "Our work is not directed at highly sensitive or classified military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services." Israel called the report politically motivated and legally baseless.
As owner of The Washington Post, announced that its opinion section would write every day in defense of "personal liberties and free markets" and leave opposing viewpoints to other publications. Opinions editor David Shipley resigned rather than oversee the change.
“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
Removed from its AI Principles the earlier commitment not to pursue weapons or "technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms".
Response: In a blog post co-written by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Google cited a global competition for AI leadership and said democracies should lead AI development and work together on AI that "supports national security".
Donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inaugural fund, a donation confirmed by a company spokesperson.
Announced it had licensed a documentary about incoming first lady Melania Trump, who served as executive producer, in a deal reported at about $40 million, shortly after Jeff Bezos met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and reports that Bezos planned to donate $1 million to his inaugural fund. Amazon reportedly spent about $35 million more promoting the film.
Response: Amazon MGM Studios said: "We licensed the film for one reason and one reason only — because we think customers are going to love it."
Donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inaugural fund and streamed the inauguration on Prime Video, an in-kind donation reported as worth another $1 million.
Blocked The Washington Post, which he owns, from publishing an endorsement of Kamala Harris that the editorial board had drafted, less than two weeks before the 2024 presidential election. The paper announced it would no longer endorse presidential candidates; more than 200,000 subscriptions were cancelled and editorial board members resigned.
Response: In an opinion piece in the Post, Bezos said ending endorsements was meant to avoid a "perception of bias", wrote "No quid pro quo of any kind is at work here", and acknowledged the timing was "inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy".
Training documents obtained by The Intercept showed that Google was offering the Israeli government, through the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus cloud contract shared with Amazon, AI capabilities including facial detection, automated image categorization, object tracking and sentiment analysis.
Response: Google did not respond to The Intercept's request for comment. The documents appeared to be standard training materials distributed to Google Cloud customers.
Removed the tactical voting app of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny's allies from the Google Play Store in Russia as parliamentary elections began, after Russia demanded the removal and said a refusal would be treated as meddling in the election.
Response: Google issued no formal statement. A person familiar with the decision told CNN that Google blocked the app because of legal demands from Russia's internet regulator and after Russian authorities threatened its local staff with criminal prosecution.
US Customs and Border Protection accepted in August 2020 a proposal to use Google Cloud to support the AI work of its innovation team, which was developing a "virtual" border wall of surveillance towers and drones with Anduril, according to contract documents reported by The Intercept.
Response: Google declined to comment on the contract.
Disabled ratings, comments and reviews for Xi Jinping's book "The Governance of China" on its Chinese site, Amazon.cn, around 2019 in response to an edict from Beijing triggered by reviews below five stars, according to a December 2021 Reuters investigation.
Response: Amazon said it "complies with all applicable laws and regulations, wherever we operate, and China is no exception".
The Intercept revealed, from leaked documents, that Google was developing "Dragonfly", a censored search engine for China that would blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protest. Work on the project was reported to have effectively ended in December 2018 after internal opposition.
Response: CEO Sundar Pichai told Congress in December 2018 that "right now" there were no plans to launch the search engine.
Amazon Web Services sales staff pitched the Rekognition facial recognition service to ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit at a June 2018 meeting, according to emails obtained by the Project on Government Oversight. An AWS employee wrote that the company was "ready and willing to support the vital HSI mission".
Response: AWS said Rekognition was discussed at technology "boot camps" and that it followed up with interested customers, ICE being one of them. ICE said it had no contract to buy Rekognition.
Public records released by the ACLU showed Amazon marketing its Rekognition facial recognition service to police and helping deploy it: the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Oregon built an app to check images against about 300,000 booking photos, and Orlando police piloted real-time detection of "persons of interest" from city cameras.
Response: Amazon said it "requires that customers comply with the law and be responsible when they use" its services.
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