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 ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring targeting following other major companies to do the same in response to President Donald Trump’s slew of executive orders curbing DEI. A Google spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner that the company no longer has specific hiring goals for representing certain groups.

The Chinese government’s move to open an antitrust probe into Google is the latest development in a long and entangled relationship that goes back to the early 2000s

The quarter before, for instance, Alphabet beat Wall Street’s EPS estimates by nearly 15 percent, as the chart below from Public.com illustrates.  Notably, Alphabet also announced $75 billion in capital expenditures for 2025 to continue investing in artificial intelligence.

China's anti-monopoly regulator said on Tuesday it had launched an investigation into Alphabet's Google, minutes after an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump came into effect.