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During a swathe of post-pandemic job cuts made by big tech companies, Alphabet announced plans to lay off 6% of its workforce in January 2023 – a figure representing around 12,000 individuals.

Google is trimming jobs in its cloud division as it doubles down on artificial intelligence, according to Bloomberg. While

The layoffs follows a period of slower growth in Google’s cloud business and increased expenditure on AI initiatives.