WASHINGTON _ A funny thing has happened to Google and Amazon on their path toward high-tech success: They have become crucial cogs in the U.S. national security establishment.
Both companies are expanding teams of employees with security clearances to work on projects that include deploying artificial intelligence and building digital "clouds" to offering law enforcement facial recognition tools that can even read the mood of people caught on camera.
The security establishment's embrace of Big Tech has ruffled the feathers of traditional defense contractors and roiled employee ranks, in Google's case, over whether the company is being drawn into what disgruntled employees called "the business of war."
