After Google scrubbed wording that promised not to use AI for weapons, some staff slammed the decision in the company's internal message board.

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

Google has made one of the most substantive changes to its AI principles since first publishing them in 2018. In a change spotted by The Washington Post, the search giant edited the document to remove pledges it had made promising it would not "design or deploy" AI tools for use in weapons or surveillance technology.

China countered President Donald Trump’s across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports, as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google.

The Chinese government’s move to open an antitrust probe into Google is the latest development in a long and tangled relationship that goes back to the early 2000s. The investigation was one of a flurry of Chinese retaliatory measures announced Tuesday in response to a 10 percent tariff imposed by U.

China says it will investigate Google on suspicion of violating antitrust laws.