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Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
(www.engadget.com)
Google. The graveyard of projects.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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Do Be Evil
In 2011 Google surreptitiously edited, "don't be evil", from its mission statement. Voila!
As Macron would say, "who would have guessed capitalism is evil?"
so letting a person own their own company is evil? we just hand it to the government?
this is about greed not capitalism... which is private ownership. our government is just as greedy
As Trump would say, "who knew healthcare could be so hard?", at least french people know how to protest...
Holy shit, that is so fucking stupid. This has so much potential. This is such an anti-human pattern.
The cost in preventable deaths, had we been continuing protein research instead of pouring the world’s resources into a fancy autocorrect, is incalculable.
Did not realise the point google dropt the act of pretending to be good and went full evil mode.
Remember actually liking the little jokes they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg
Unfortunately, they've been full-on evil for at least a decade.
We pursue AI for the good of humanity my ass
How are there like 3 positive comments on this article? Is Engaget primarily for dummies?
Sorry it didn't fit with the narrative of genocidal maniacs.
Idiocracy
Other former staff members were reassigned to Alphabet's drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs, which is a DeepMind spin-off.
They're still actively working on this area of research.
No they are not actively working on the same area, and yes fuck google, because this exact example is as clear as it gets why we should burn every database that google owns.
deepmind by principle was meant to offer global scientific communities a tool that helped with research, cutting down errors and trial time massively, it was a free, open-scientific prediction model.
Deepmind offered its different versions of source code for free to universities and science based communities, tried to help develop and accelerate its research “non commercial rule applied”.
Deepmind was non profit, open access that had zero return value on licensing.
isomorphic lab, is a venture capitalist company that relies on hiding its research, recently get funded 2billion by the most evil zionist, the one and only, the scum of the sewers …. Joshua Kushner.
Err, sir. This is a pile on / anti Google thread. Please take your comments elsewhere. Please and thank you.
Pitchforks! Get yer pitchforks. Four for a paaand!
I'll set down my anti-Google pitchfork when the company dissolves, but I love to hear accurate updates on things. I can cradle my pitchfork in the crook of my arm while I listen.