My understanding is Microsoft traditionally does much more defense focused cloud infrastructure. I’m curious what made the IDF choose Google.

The place I found to the link indicated MS was providing AI capacity too, but it’s not in this article so I can’t be sure.

"Google recently described its work for the Israeli government as largely for civilian purposes."

That "largely" does an awful lot of work, doesn't it.

Is it "largely" for filtering search results that civilians will have easy access to, in line with IDF narratives and perspectives (?)

Google Cloud providing AI Services to IDF could be anything from simple office automation to augmenting weapons systems. I really hope it isn’t the latter.

Google has always been a defence company at the core right from its beginning.

Based on how the search for the hostages is going I figured they were using Bing.