Google Lays Off Hundreds in Hardware, Assistant, Engineering
- The move follows staff cuts at Amazon as 2024 gets underway
- Google is coming under pressure from Microsoft and OpenAI
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its digital assistant, hardware and engineering teams as part of a continued effort to lower costs and focus on artificial intelligence.
The affected employees included those working on the voice-based Google Assistant and the augmented reality hardware team. The central engineering organization was also hit by cuts, the company said.