Apple layoffs hit employees across teams; company confirms job cuts
Apple has laid off over 200 employees across its Vision Pro and Siri divisions as part of a strategic realignment. The company is scaling back its immersive video and gaming efforts for the headset while restructuring the Siri team to focus on new AI architectures.
Why it matters
This move highlights the challenges tech giants face in balancing high-cost experimental hardware with the urgent need to pivot toward generative AI infrastructure.
Apple has laid off more than 200 people across the teams building Siri and the Vision Pro, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman. The split is roughly even. About 100 roles have gone from the Vision Pro organisation, and about 100 more from Siri and the software groups around it. Also caught in the round is Intelligent Systems Experience, a team inside Apple's software engineering arm that builds AI features sitting across iPhone, iPad and Mac.Apple confirmed the cuts without confirming the number. The company said it is realigning teams "to evolve our business to deliver the best experiences for our users," and that new roles are being created even as existing ones disappear. Staff who lost jobs can apply elsewhere inside Apple. What makes this round worth reading closely is that one headcount figure is hiding two completely different stories. One team is being rebuilt.
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