Google has fewer employees than it did in early 2023, and the company is pushing AI in part to boost efficiencies.

Then Google swept in, spending $2.4 billion to license the company’s tech and vacuum up its CEO and top researchers, ...

Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts to the ...

Cognition acquired Windsurf and offered its remaining 200 employees a choice between a buyout or working 80 hours a week, ...

Google eliminated about 6% of its workforce in early 2023 and has implemented cuts in various groups since then, offering buyouts to employees since the beginning of the year.

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Cognition, maker of artificial intelligence coding startup Devin, has offered nine months’ salary as severance to roughly 200 employees it acquired from rival Windsurf three weeks ago, according to an ...

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, and Brian Saluzzo, a Google executive who heads a team of developers, advised their workforce to quickly adopt AI in their operations to increase productivity as the ...

Although the BofA analysts see a risk from job data indicating the tech giant is growing headcount, the company's "voluntary employee-buyout program suggests cost management is ongoing," they noted.