AI might be coming for our jobs, but capitalist pressures appear to be coming for the people responsible for developing AI. Wired reported over 200 people working on Google’s AI products, including its chatbot Gemini and the AI Overviews it displays in search results, were recently laid off—joining the ranks of unfortunate former employees of xAI and Meta , who have also been victims of “restructuring” as companies that poured billions of dollars into AI development are trying to figure out how to make that money back.

Per Wired, most of the people working on Google’s AI products were contractors rather than Google employees. Many worked at GlobalLogic, a software development company owned by Hitachi. According to the report, most of the GlobalLogic workers who got cut off from Goog

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