The people who hate "AI" are correctly understanding it as a political project, not simply a technology. Ali Alkhatib's definition here is clarifying in this regard: https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai
Topological doesn't just have "AI" in the description, they are tagged with the "AI" tag, and for good reason, they are developing machine learning models (which is what they mean by "foundation model" in the text you quoted).