US lawmakers want Google to reconsider links to China’s Huawei


A man walks past the logo of the US multinational technology company Google during the VivaTech trade fair, on May 24, 2018 in Paris. / AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD

WASHINGTON: Some Republican and Democratic US lawmakers asked Alphabet Inc's Google on June 20 to reconsider its work with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which they described as a security threat.

In a letter to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, the lawmakers said Google recently decided not to renew “Project Maven”, an artificial intelligence research partnership with the US Department of Defence.

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