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The game-centric online chat and social networking service Discord has become the latest tech company in 2024 to reveal layoffs. It will cut 170 employees or 17 percent of its workforce.

Google is making quite a few changes to its company and products. After the layoffs, it has announced that it will soon be ditching some underutilized features on Google Assistant.

Google confirmed that it had laid off several hundred workers in its Google Assistant and core engineering teams on Wednesday, on top of layoffs in its Devices and Services division.

Amazon is going through another large round of mass layoffs today, including over 500 team members at Twitch and "several hundred" people at its Prime Video and MGM Studios divisions.

The game engine company Unity will lay off 1,800 of its employees, or about 25 percent of its workforce, from now until the end of March, in yet another negative event for the business.

Xerox has become the latest tech company to say that it will be laying off staff and reorganizing its structure. The company had 20,500 employees at the start of 2023 and 15% of those will be let go.

Spotify has decided to layoff 17% or about 1,500 of its employees. The company is trying to cut costs and adjust for a period of slower growth. The decision was announced in an internal memo.

Unity announced the layoff of 265 employees from its partnership with Weta Digital as the services agreement comes to an end. The layoffs will affect roles that support Weta FX's use of Unity tools.

Amazon is making another round of layoffs, which will include over 180 employees in its games division along with an unspecified number of team members in its music streaming division.

Warframe developer Digital Extremes confirmed reports it was closing its game publishing division which will result in an unrevealed number of people being laid off by the company.

Snapchat celebrated its sixth Lens Fest today and shared a new version of the Lens Studio with more capabilities for developers. The Lens Studio 5.0 Beta loads faster and features Gen AI.

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced that the business-themed social network will lay off an additional 668 team members this year, after previously cutting 716 workers in earlier in 2023.

Qualcomm lays off more than 1,200 employees as it cuts costs due to declining revenue from slower smartphone sales and the potential loss of a major customer. The cuts will affect several departments.

Brave Software, best known for its Brave browser, laid off 9% of its workforce in an effort to manage costs amid difficult economic conditions. The job cuts affected departments across the company.

The episodic game developer and publisher has confirmed it has laid off some of its team members this week. It said that its upcoming projects, including The Wolf Among Us 2, are still in production.

The unnamed former team members at Edmonton, Alberta-based BioWare claim that the game development studio didn't offer as much severance pay as required under local Alberta laws.

A new report claims that Sony-owned game developer Naughty Dog will lay off "dozens" of contract employees at the end of October. Full-time employees at The Last of US developer will not be affected.

The UK-based game developer and publisher confirmed it has "amicably parted ways" with its CEO Michael Pattison, as it enters into a period of consultation where as many as 50 employees are at risk

Epic Games, the creators of the hit battle royale game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine development tools, will lay off 16 percent of its workers and also spinoff or divest some side businesses.

The Embracer Group has overseen layoffs and restructuring at several acquired studios, most recently at Crystal Dynamics, known for Tomb Raider. 10 employees from IT and marketing were laid off.

Beamdog has laid off 26 employees as owner Embracer aims to cut costs, having acquired over 230 companies. The developer known for Baldur's Gate and MythForce, was purchased by Aspyr in 2022.

The streaming hardware and software company says it will also take large one-time charges for shutting down some office space and also to remove some content from its free Roku Channel.

In a statement, Blackbird Interactive said that the cancelation of "several unannounced projects" led to the layoffs this week. Development of Homeworld 3 will continue as planned.

The 50 laid-off BioWare team members will be given an opportunity to apply for open positions in other EA studios. Development of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf and the next Mass Effect game will continue.

CD Projekt Red has revealed plans to lay off about 100 staff working on its ongoing projects set in The Witcher and Cyberpunk universes. CEO Adam Kiciński revealed this is to reduce overstaffing.

Amazon has laid off 80 employees from its Pharmacy division. The cuts are pretty small given the fact that the company has already made 27,000 people redundant over the last several months.

Embracer Group, which has a number of game publishers and studios under its large company, stated that it will be conducting a review of its operations that will result in a reduction of operations.

The layoffs will see 90 people lose their jobs at Reddit, which will also cut down on hiring for the rest of the year. The company is also facing a backlash against its updated API pricing.

Spotify has confirmed it is laying off 200 team members, or 2 percent of its total workforce. The layoffs will come from its podcast division. It will also combine its Parcast and Gimlet studios.

As part of its layoffs, Meta let engineers go who were working on a fact-checking feature for Facebook. The feature has now been scrapped but would have added fact-checking comments above articles.

The Sega-owned game developer Relic Entertainment stated today it had laid off 121 of its team members, only a few months after it launched its latest game, the WWII RTS Company of Heroes 3.

Ubisoft has confirmed it could lay off as many as 60 members of the game publisher's Customer Relations Center team, which are based in Cary, North Carolina, and Newcastle in the UK.

LinkedIn is shutting down its China-focused local jobs app called InCareer, which will result in the departure of 716 employees from the company. The operations will wind down by August this year.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that the company is no longer planning to hire jobs that can be automated using artificial intelligence tools, impacting around 7,800 jobs.

Lyft is preparing to lay off more than 1,000 employees in a mission to cut costs and become profitable. This represents a 30% cut in staff numbers. Employees will hear more next Thursday.

Microsoft has emphasized the importance of its Responsible AI principles. This comes at an interesting time considering it recently laid off its Ethics and Society team responsible for ensuring this.

The job cuts are being considered a streamlining effort by Apple, who until now had not made any moves to lay off employees in the last several months, unlike most major technology companies.