Apple Inc. is shutting a 121-person team related to artificial intelligence operations in San Diego, leaving many employees at risk of termination, according to people familiar with the matter. The group, known as Data Operations Annotations, was told Wednesday that they would be relocating to Austin to merge with the Texas portion of the same team, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans haven’t been announced. Employees who can’t transfer or find other jobs will be let go https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-14/apple-to-shutter-121-person-san-diego-ai-team-in-reorganization?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240114&utm_campaign=author_19842959 Layoffs continue..
So Apple is doing layoffs.
This looks like a precursor to a impending layoff.
Agreed big layoff coming.
What does this team do
Running from CA
Apple will layoff and or reorg more as their stock cap decreases.
The AI annotations team is basically a labelling team, a very manual intensive operation, which I can understand why Apple decided to move the site to a lower cost of living from San Diego to Austin. It is sad, but it is what it is as the current reality. The big dog, "Scale AI" has been moving many of its labelling teams to overseas actually.
Amazon labeling teams are in India but not sure why we’d want to pay for this in CA of all places.
Strange, just a few days ago we had corporate simps licking Apples boots for not laying off. I wonder how many of these situations at Apple just never make the news.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/07/27/apple-buys-new-campus-for-445-million-for-vast-san-diego-expansion/amp/ What while they do here. May be they purchased this at 0%. Now they have to start paying interest for everything.
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