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Sundar Pichai tells Stanford graduates ‘your choices will shape your journey’ after students walk out during speech

A group of students walked out of the graduation ceremony while Google CEO Sundar Pichai was delivering the commencement address at Stanford University. The planned weeks-long protest was targeting Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a cloud computing and artificial intelligence deal between Google, Amazon and the Israeli government. More than 100 students took part in the demonstration, reports said, leaving their seats at Stanford Stadium while chanting “Free, free Palestine”. The students said the protest was intended to raise awareness of concerns surrounding the project and its links to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

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