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Apple is laying disconnected 614 workers successful California following reports that emerged earlier this twelvemonth that nan tech elephantine is abandoning its effort to build an electrical car.
A authorities filing from Apple shows that nan job cuts will effect 8 offices successful Santa Clara County and will spell into effect connected May 27.
The filing did not sanction nan project, but roles affected by nan layoffs see "machine shop" managers, merchandise creation engineers and hardware engineers, according to nan San Francisco Chronicle.
In February, Apple announced internally that it was canceling its effort to build an electrical car, dubbed Project Titan, according to Bloomberg.
APPLE SCRAPPING ELECTRIC CAR PROJECT
People are seen astatine nan Apple Store successful Santa Monica, California, successful November 2023. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The institution spent billions of dollars connected nan project, and nan move amazed nan astir 2,000 labor who were moving connected it, Bloomberg besides reported.
The outlet said that immoderate of nan workers would beryllium redirected to attraction connected Apple's generative artificial intelligence division, while others will beryllium laid off.
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Rumors person swirled for years that Apple was trying to build an autonomous electrical taxi successful an effort to return connected electric conveyance elephantine Tesla.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives arsenic group guidelines successful statement to acquisition nan Apple Vision Pro headset astatine nan Fifth Avenue Apple shop connected Feb. 2 successful New York City. Cook had confirmed successful 2017 that Apple was moving connected autonomous systems that could person applicatio (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images / Getty Images)
In 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that nan institution was moving connected autonomous systems that could person applications successful nan self-driving car segment.
That year, Apple obtained a licence from nan authorities of California to trial vehicles equipped pinch self-driving instrumentality connected nationalist roads.
But ultimately, apical executives decided successful February this twelvemonth to scrap nan task aft it reached a "make-or-break point," Bloomberg reported.
The occupation cuts will effect 8 Apple offices successful California. (REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo / Reuters Photos)
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