Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military

<p>Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’</p><p>Workers developing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/google">Google</a>’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology+artificialintelligenceai">artificial intelligence</a> products in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk">UK</a> have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.</p><p>In a letter slated to go to management on Tuesday and shared exclusively with the Guardian, workers at Google <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/deepmind">DeepMind</a>, the company’s AI research laboratory, requested recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the lab’s UK-based staff.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/google-deepmind-uk-workers-union">Continue reading...</a>