Alphabet's Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S. businesses scaling back diversity initiatives.

Google is scrapping some of its diversity hiring targets, joining a lengthening list of U.S. companies that have been abandoning or scaling back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Google is the latest company to roll back DEI efforts amid more political pressure to do so under President Trump.

Google has quietly deleted its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, a promise that had been in place since 2018.

Human Rights Watch has criticised the decision, telling the BBC that AI can "complicate accountability" for battlefield decisions that "may have life or death consequences." In a blog post Google defended the change,

Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.