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Leaked emails from Google show that Project Maven, an artificial intelligence-driven program devised by the Pentagon to improve drone targeting, would have earned the company up to US$250 million a year, much above the US$15 million figure that was initially made public.

A dozen Google employees have quit their jobs in protest against the company's involvement in Project Maven, a US Defence Department program that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video images and assist in targeting enemies in drone strikes.

Google has thrown a spanner into the works of developers who have been using domain-fronting in the Google App Engine to avoid Internet censorship by using Google's network.