Apple is cutting the people who built the old Siri, because the new one needs a different kind of engineer
Apple laid off more than 200 people this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on 21 August, split roughly evenly between the Vision Pro organisation and the Siri and software groups. On the Siri side the cuts fall on teams working on the existing assistant; the rebuilt, model-driven Siri calls for different skills. Apple is also cutting inside Intelligent Systems Experience, the software-engineering team behind several of the AI features shipping on its devices. The Vision Pro cuts hit gaming and the immersive video unit, where single episodes are reported to cost millions of dollars to shoot; Apple will make fewer of them in-house and buy more from outside producers. The company confirmed the cuts, saying it is realigning teams around a changing product mix, that new roles will be created and that a limited number of existing roles are affected. Reporting ties the shift to smart glasses moving up Apple's priority list.
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