SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide
The world’s second-largest tech company just acquired a military-linked Israeli startup that uses “facial skin micromovements” to anticipate what users will say before they speak.
This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Tech giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for a “pre-speech” tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. In the second-biggest deal in its history, Apple paid this money for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website is a single page containing 15 words. The company, Q.ai, is developing sensors which map the imperceptible movements of a human face to determine the words someone is thinking before they’re spoken. They call it “silent speech,” or “pre-speech” — and it…Open