Nitin Pai: When US technology companies effectively contribute to war, they become targets

It declared that “since the main element in designing and tracking terror targets are American [Information and Communications Technology] and [artificial intelligence or AI] companies… the main institutions effective in terrorist operations [against Iran] will be our legitimate targets.” Employees were warned to vacate their workplaces and residents living within a kilometre’s radius of their premises were told to evacuate to safety. On Iran’s target list were Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, JPMorgan, Tesla, GE and Boeing. G42 and Spire Solutions, two UAE-based companies, were also named. Iranian strikes have already damaged Amazon…