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Google lays off hundreds of staff working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as the company explores integrating newer AI tech

Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number …

Semafor Louise Matsakis

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  • @alphabetworkers @alphabetworkers on x
    Tonight, Google began another round of needless layoffs. Our members and teammates work hard every day to build great products for our users, and the company cannot continue to fire our coworkers while making billions every quarter. We won't stop fighting until our jobs are safe!
  • @izzyz Israel Gonzalez-Brooks on x
    Damn, the tech job market just keeps getting worse and worse. In the past 30 days: - Etsy cut 11% - Duolingo cut 10% of contractors - Bolt cut 29% - Rumors that Netflix is cutting - Google reorg of 30k (unclear what cuts) - Unity cut 1.8k - Amazon cutting “several hundred”
  • @byjulialove Julia Love on x
    Layoffs at Alphabet have resumed. Can only imagine how tough it must be for workers to receive this news. If any affected workers would like to speak, my DMs are open.
  • @lmatsakis Louise Matsakis on x
    Scoop: Google is laying off hundreds of people working on Google Assistant. The company said last year that it was reimagining the voice software by combining it with its Bard AI chatbot https://www.semafor.com/...
  • @ztlaidlaw Zach Laidlaw on threads
    And for Google's next trick — killing off the Fitbit and Nest brands in place of Pixel everything.  They're already *so* close; may as well just seal the deal.
  • @mhwilliams.bsky.social M.H. Williams on bluesky
    Note, the founders of Fitbit and most of the upper-level team there are gone.  —  Google only bought the company four years ago.  Brand is probably dead at Google.  [embedded post]
  • @jrichlive Jeff Richards on x
    We will look at 2022 as the year employment growth at tech companies peaked. The '22/'23 “get fit” trend dovetailed right into '23 - '25 AI adoption, driving a massive increase in productivity. Upside: more profitable tech cos. Downside: less obvious + easy employment growth.
  • @nicoagrant Nico Grant on x
    Google cut hundreds of employees from its engineering, Assistant, and Pixel phone divisions Wednesday night, a year after the company culled 6 percent of its workforce. https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @byjulialove Julia Love on x
    Google has laid off hundreds of employees working on teams including the Assistant, hardware and central engineering. The company is framing the cuts of part of its pledge to sharpen its focus on its biggest priorities. Story with @daveyalba https://www.bloomberg.com/...