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The tech company’s plan is similar to one announced two days earlier by Meta, another Silicon Valley giant.

As it races to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google has retired its Bard chatbot and released a more powerful app.

Job cuts, which could continue throughout the year, have created a glum mood at what was arguably Silicon Valley’s most exuberant workplace.

Profits are up and the economy is strong. But the tech industry faces two challenges — dealing with a frenetic work force expansion in the pandemic and building A.I.

A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.

Google’s parent company reported that sales climbed 13 percent to $86.3 billion while profit jumped 52 percent.

The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.

The company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who worked on core engineering, the Google Assistant product and hardware such as the Pixel phone.