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Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”


Employees are mad about layoffs and what some perceive to be a rushed AI strategy.

I’m coming to you with fresh reporting from inside Google, where I obtained audio of CEO Sundar Pichai addressing employee concerns about layoffs, the company’s AI strategy, and more. All of that below, plus more on the “urgency” push by ByteDance’s CEO and my notes on Meta’s big week. This story is exclusively for subscribers of Command Line, our newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation.

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