Monday, 15 June, 2026
Commencement Chaos: Stanford Students Walk Out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai
By TechShots Studio
More than 200 Stanford graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s commencement address. Waving Palestinian flags and chanting protests, the students targeted Google’s $1.2 billion "Project Nimbus" cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government. While Pichai intentionally avoided tech and AI topics to evade career-related backlash, he could not bypass the demonstration, later finishing his speech once protesters left to hold an alternative "People’s Commencement."
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