Amazon shareholders demand investigation into AI and cloud contracts tied to Israel and U.S. DHS
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Amazon is under fresh pressure as shareholders push for a detailed check on its AI and cloud deals connected to Israel’s military and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The proposal was filed by American Baptist Home Mission Societies, reviewed by Bloomberg, and targets the company’s own responsible AI rules. It asks the board to look for “instances of misalignment” between those rules and the way Amazon sells AI systems and cloud tools to government agencies. Investors want the vote to take place during the company’s annual meeting in May. The filing comes while other tech giants deal with similar heat. Microsoft, based near Amazon and competing hard in cloud, has faced protests from workers and activists who oppose its links to the Israeli military during the Gaza conflict. After reports that Microsoft servers carried recordings of intercepted calls from Palestinian areas, the company removed those files. It still deals with pressure from groups calling for a full break from Israeli clients. Investors push Amazon to review AI and cloud practices Amazon Web Services remains central to the company’s global business. It sells rented storage and computing power at a scale no rival matches. AWS has not seen the level of internal protests that hit Microsoft, but workers and outside groups have targeted Amazon and Google for their roles in Project Nimbus, an Israeli government cloud platform. One Amazon employee was fired earlier this year after he criticized that deal on internal Slack channels and later passed out fliers at the Seattle headquarters. The cloud giant said the worker broke rules by making statements meant to “threaten, intimidate, coerce or interfere with” leaders and colleagues. Shareholders also focus on DHS, which uses a biometric and biographic data system hosted on AWS. The resolution cites claims that DHS units have detained…
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