- Around 200 students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech at Stanford University.
- The students protested Google's involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal providing cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli government and military.
- Protesters chanted “free, free Palestine” and waved Palestinian flags as they exited the ceremony.
- Pichai had previously stated that Google is not a place to 'fight over disruptive issues or debate politics' in response to internal backlash over Project Nimbus.
- Following the walkout, students organized their own People's Commencement featuring pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil as the keynote speaker.
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