Google rings in 2024 with sweeping layoffs

The 2024 layoff season appears to have only begun, with Google cutting hundreds of employees across multiple divisions yesterday.  News broke late Wednesday that Google employees were reportedly being erased from Google's core engineering group, the Google Assistant team and the devices and services team responsible for things …

[Swordfish1]

The AI revolution has begun

[Lurko]

Given the garbage ads I get served (those that get past the blockers), the AI revolution isn't going far. More Citizen Smith than Che Guevara*.

[Robigus]

Freedom for Tooting, Comrade.

[Spazturtle]

They (and the other big tech companies) had been over hiring for years and then getting the staff to work on useless projects, this was done to deprive start ups of programmers. Now that interest rates are higher and people are less able to form start ups this tactic is now longer needed.

[Robigus]

Genuine question; is that a thing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not surprising, I can just imagine the tumble weed rolling through Google Cloud data centres. Few use them unless they have to. Less than half the uptake of Azure even with vast discounts on offer.