[insane_dreamer]

yes, they have (given up); I'm sure there are engineers and teams who care; but the executives and shareholders driving the decisions at these research labs (which are embedded in or funded by the big tech co's), clearly see profit > safety

safety is like climate change mitigation -- it's an extra expense with little obvious immediate financial return, and if your competitors don't care, then you caring just holds you back while they can forge ahead

until the day there's a catastrophe and the cost of repairing it far far exceeds the cost of safety, but by then it's someone else's problem and you have your golden parachute and your investors have cashed out