Google layoffs: Security teams impacted
The people familar with the matter told Business Insider that Google’s Threat Intelligence Group whcih is one of its top security research units was affected by this round of layoffs. The team is well-known for publishing reports on hacker activity and global cyber threats. Employees from Mandiant and other parts of Google Cloud were also impacted, with some posting about the cuts on LinkedIn.
What Google said about the layoffs
A Google spokesperson said: “We regularly evaluate our internal structures to ensure we are best positioned to meet the evolving demands of our customers and the industry.” One person familiar with the decision added that Google cited the need to reinvest in growth areas such as AI development as justification for the move.
Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis has a message for laid off engineers at Meta, Amazon, Block
Recenlty, Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis revealed that he thinks the companies cutting engineers to ride the AI wave have got it backwards. The Google DeepMind CEO told WIRED that when developers become three or four times more productive, the smart move is to do three or four times more work, not march people out the door. To him, treating AI gains as a reason to shrink headcount is a failure of nerve dressed up as strategy.
And he made clear he would happily take the talent everyone else is shedding. “I have a million ideas, from lab drug discovery to game design,” he said. “I’d love to have some free engineers to go and do those kinds of things.” His pitch arrives in the middle of a brutal stretch for tech workers, with 2026 layoffs already past 142,000 and the cuts still coming.
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