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Nevilledog

(54,843 posts)
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 12:13 PM Yesterday

Apple Just Bought A Sinister 'Pre-Speech' Tech Company Implicated In Genocide

https://www.donotpanic.news/p/apple-just-bought-a-sinister-pre

Apple has paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza.

And Apple has paid this money, the second-biggest deal in its history, 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’s exactly as sinister as you think it is.

Q.ai was founded by Aviad Maizels, Avi Barliya and Yonatan Wexler, all of whom honed their skills by testing technologies of apartheid on Palestinians. Maizels is a former commander of Unit 81, the IDF division which builds Israel’s offensive cyber weapons. Barliya, according to his LinkedIn, was an intelligence officer in the Israeli air force, while Wexler is a former Unit 8200 agent.

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Apple Just Bought A Sinister 'Pre-Speech' Tech Company Implicated In Genocide (Original Post) Nevilledog Yesterday OP
How about doing something that helps people instead of more bullshit we do not need. chowder66 Yesterday #1
Sounds like Tim Cook has really gone over to the dark side. highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #2
Yup SheltieLover 23 hrs ago #3

highplainsdem

(61,042 posts)
2. Sounds like Tim Cook has really gone over to the dark side.
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 01:49 PM
23 hrs ago

And given his obsequiousness around Trump, you can bet he'll be happy to share this mindreading-via-AI with the Trump regime and any authoritarian succrssors.

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