Google layoffs set the stage for AI battle among titans
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Claudia Chong
A YEAR ago, Google’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai told employees that 12,000 of them, representing 6 per cent of the workforce, were getting laid off.
The company had hired when conditions were rosier and had to backtrack, he said in a mass e-mail.
The retrenchments this time are different. This year, when 2024 rolled around, no such e-mail came. Instead, Google began quietly cutting hundreds of workers across various functions.
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