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Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams amid cost-cutting drive
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Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams amid cost-cutting drive

  • By ZEN SOO - AP Technology Writer

Google says it has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance and engineering teams as part of cost-cutting measures. The company said the moves were made as Google aims at “responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead.”  Google earlier said it was eliminating a few hundred roles, with most of the impact on its augmented reality hardware team. The cuts follow pledges by executives of Google and its parent company Alphabet to reduce costs. In January 2023, Google said it would lay off 12,000 employees or around 6% of its workforce.

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  • Peter Morgan - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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FILE - A Google sign hangs over an entrance to the company's new building, Sept. 6, 2023, in New York. Google has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance and engineering teams as part of cost-cutting measures. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

Live updates | UN top court will hear genocide allegation as Israel focuses fighting in central Gaza
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Live updates | UN top court will hear genocide allegation as Israel focuses fighting in central Gaza

  • By The Associated Press

The United Nations' top court begins hearings Thursday over allegations that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide, which Israel strongly denies. South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to order an immediate suspension of Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent days in strikes across the territory, including in areas of the far south where Israel told people to seek refuge. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been meeting with leaders across the Mideast, seeking to rally the region behind postwar plans for Gaza. Blinken spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday before flying to Manama, the capital of the tiny Gulf nation of Bahrain.