Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)

Blog I expected better from Google What we found in Artemis, and why open-source credit matters.

We opened Google’s Artemis repository and recognised code we had written for mobile-use. Then we found our names in its history—and the change that removed them.

CEO & Co-Founder, Minitap · September 11, 2026 · 7 min

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I was in the office with the team when we heard that Google had released Artemis, a project for automating mobile devices. We opened the repository and started looking through it. My reaction was pretty immediate: