Google CEO attempts to patch up the company’s relationship with the Pentagon

Google CEO Sundar Pichai quietly met with the Pentagon last week in hopes of smoothing over the Alphabet Inc.-owned company’s relationship with the military after abruptly canceling its involvement in Project Maven, the Washington Post reports, citing two unnamed sources.Pichai met with military leaders at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the department in charge of the project, which would have used Google’s artificial intelligence software to analyze m