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Friday 23 October 2026
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London-based research engineer Sofia Liguori and AI researcher Andreas Kirsch told the BBC they left over Google's work with the US and Israeli militaries. Google said its public-sector contracts follow a consistent review process.
Google Cloud customers will be able to buy OpenAI frontier models through Model Garden and the Google Cloud Marketplace, the companies said. OpenAI said Microsoft remains its primary cloud partner.
Google said anyone could have forged trusted HTTPS certificates using the compromised keys; it is also removing the emSign ECC Root CA - G3 from the Chrome Root Store on 27 October.
Google said a "power event" in one zone of its London cloud region caused an outage on Tuesday that affected services including Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC and the courts' video platform. Google said most workloads had recovered by the afternoon UK time.
Google says its Willow chip cut errors in a key quantum computing step about 40-fold. Crypto researchers disagree on what that means for when bitcoin's cryptography could be at risk.
