Welcome to the Tech Beam Right home for Thursday, January 18th,

24. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Google signals more layoffs are in the mail,

but what's interesting is what that says about Google specifically

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Looks like the layoffs are going to continue a pace at Google. This is not so much a case of business stress, so much as business reorg. They've got to reposition themselves to deal with the existential

AI threat so maybe that is a business stress I suppose anyway on top of the

thousand job cuts they've made this month. A new memo suggests there are more to come.

We have ambitious goals and we'll be investing in our big priorities this year.

Pachai wrote in an internal memo that was shared with Alex Heath. The reality is that to create the capacity for this

investment we have to make tough choices." End quote. Note where the cuts have come so far,

the Pixel and Hardware Division ad sales search shopping.

This is, as I said, giving a sense of a fundamental structural realignment.

So this is, I would say, not like those other tech layoffs we've seen this month.

This is not, we're running out of VC money or

we over hired or responding to bad macroeconomic conditions. This is

realigning the company toward a new strategic aim. These role

eliminations are not at the scale of last year's reductions and will not touch every team, Pichai wrote.

Google, by the way, cut a full 12,000 jobs a year ago.

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