Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said AI has evolved from academic research to become one of the biggest drivers of technological change, creating new opportunities for growth and improved services across all industries.

Source: https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-and-openai-s-chatgpt-vs-google-and-anthropic-claude

“Today’s news primarily impacted positions that were non-customer facing, non-engineering and operational in nature,” Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s chief executive, wrote in an email to employees.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/business/google-alphabet-layoffs.html