{"id":962243,"date":"2025-09-17T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962243"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:18:38","slug":"google-layoffs-over-200-gemini-and-ai-overviews-contractors-axed-in-ramp-down-effort-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/google-layoffs-over-200-gemini-and-ai-overviews-contractors-axed-in-ramp-down-effort-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Layoffs: Over 200 Gemini and AI Overviews contractors axed in \u2018ramp-down\u2019 effort, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Google has reportedly laid off more than 200 contractors working on its artificial intelligence projects, including Gemini and AI Overviews, sparking concerns over job security, low pay, and retaliation against unionisation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Google Layoffs: Sudden Cuts Without Warning<br \/>\nMore than 200 workers hired to train and refine Google\u2019s AI systems were abruptly terminated last month, according to multiple sources who spoke to WIRED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Google has reportedly laid off more than 200 contractors working on its artificial intelligence projects, including Gemini and AI Overviews, sparking concerns over job security, low pay, and retaliation against unionisation efforts. Google Layoffs: Sudden Cuts Without Warning More than 200 workers hired to train and refine Google\u2019s AI systems were abruptly terminated last month, according to multiple sources who spoke to WIRED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}