Alphabet Inc.'s Google is laying off hundreds of employees across few of their departments such as central engineering, Google Voice Assistant and hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit, as part of its ongoing cost-cutting actions, according to media reports on Thursday.
The augmented reality (AR) hardware team is the most affected, with hundreds of roles being eliminated. The move comes as Google works on an OEM-partnership model for AR hardware and is no longer working on its own AR hardware.
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