The U.S. president said his government will look into ties between Google and China after billionaire investor Peter Thiel raised concerns that the company was working with China’s military. Google said it has never done so. A few hours after Trump’s comments, Google executive Karan Bhatia sad the company’s Dragonfly search-engine project in China had been “terminated.” (Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg)

Talking point: Google had initially planned to launch Dragonfly between January and April of this year. Two things have changed since then: the project has faced significant employee backlash, and the company’s relations with Beijing have soured. Over 700 employees signed a public letter asking Google to stop Dragonfly; the company’s privacy team confronted executives over the project and multiple employees resigned in protest. In January 2018, Google parent Alphabet inked a deal with Chinese tech giant Tencent to cross-license technology, and Google pursued cloud-services contracts in China. Fast-forward a year and a half, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is arguing that his company shouldn’t be broken up so it’s big enough to take on China, and telling U.S. Senator Mark Warner the company has ended some partnerships in the country.