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When it comes to AI, Google has left its "do no harm" stance firmly in the past. The Pentagon has just announced GenAI.mil, a generative AI platform that will offer Google Cloud's Gemini as its first available AI tool. Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth said that the platform will make "our fighting force more lethal than ever before."

"The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI," Hegseth said. "As technologies advance, so do our adversaries. But here at the War Department, we are not sitting idly by."

> Pentagon says its new military AI platform with Google's Gemini will make US forces "more lethal"

Companies that are excited about generative AI speeding up productivity – usually at the cost of human employees – often don't care about the public's opinion. But McDonald's just found out what happens when you ignore the general consensus. Its new AI-made Christmas ad has been pulled after being universally panned.

McDonald's Netherlands unwisely decided that an AI-generated ad would be a good idea to promote its Christmas campaign. It's pretty easy to spot the tell-tale signs that something was created by an AI, especially when it includes "real" people, as this 45-second ad does.

> Watch the AI-generated Christmas ad McDonald's pulled after massive backlash