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YouTube is offering voluntary buyouts with severance for U.S.-based employees arsenic it restructures its merchandise organization to absorption much connected artificial intelligence.
The determination comes arsenic Google CEO Sundar Pichai pushes employees to boost productivity by utilizing AI crossed the company.
In an interior memo to staff, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said the level is reorganizing its merchandise teams for the archetypal clip successful a decade.
"Looking to the future, the adjacent frontier for YouTube is AI," a YouTube spokesperson said successful a connection to CNBC. The buyouts were archetypal reported by Alex Heath astatine Sources.
YouTube said nary roles are being eliminated arsenic portion of the change.
Under the caller structure, 3 merchandise groups volition present study straight to Mohan.
Christian Oestlien, antecedently vice president of merchandise management, volition pb the subscription products division, which oversees YouTube Music and Premium, YouTube TV, Primetime Channels, Podcasts and Commerce.
Chief Product Officer Johanna Voolich volition pb the spectator products team, which covers YouTube's main app, Living Room, Search and Discovery, YouTube Kids, Learning and Trust and Safety.
Companies crossed the tech manufacture are reshaping their workforces arsenic they accommodate to accelerated advances successful AI portion besides reckoning with different challenges, similar higher costs from tariffs. On Tuesday, Amazon announced plans to laic disconnected astir 14,000 firm employees arsenic it invests successful AI initiatives.
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