Natasha Tiku

There were hundreds of students who walked out during his speech.

They ended up kind of going to a people's commencement ceremony nearby where they were each given like sunflowers and

And apparently it was like a very communal, positive, upbeat vibe.

There were some former Googlers who had megaphones and were chanting and in support of them.

But the organizers tried really hard to highlight the fact that what they were protesting was not

like the use of AI in general.

They were particularly talking about Google's contracts with the Israeli government, Project Nimbus, this $1.2 billion contract, as well as Google's Department of Homeland Security contracts with ICE.

So they were talking about, you know, the use of AI in warfare and in, they said,

Like kidnapping our neighbors, like human rights abuses within the U.S.

So, yeah, it was it was really not well received by high up people in the tech industry who I think like Vinod Khosla, for example, the billionaire investor.

was like scolding all the students.

And you saw a number of tech CEOs saying like, ah, good, now I know like who I won't hire.

You know, obviously there's a lot of like, it's the alma mater for a lot of tech folks.

So I think they were very unhappy to see that.

And you could, I mean, at least in the videos that I saw, you could barely even hear Sundar's speech when they started walking out.

I mean, I saw a video of reporters trying to ask him to comment on it immediately after and he just like looked at them and kept walking.

I was thinking we're going to need that, you know, that celebrity lip reader who does all of the like Oscars and all of that stuff.

Like I think that the tech world needs to have one of those because I really wanted to know like what he was saying.

he was kind of saying on the sidelines.

Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that the, because this is the