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Along with the departure of a senior executive, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.

Volkswagen’s plant in Zwickau stopped producing Golfs and switched to electric vehicles, illuminating the risks and opportunities for factory towns and cities.

David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.

Autonomous taxis have arrived in the nation’s second most populous city. Some Angelenos aren’t ready to go driverless.

The carmaker and energy company settled with a Black man who had worked at its California factory and had won a $3 million judgment against the company.

The group will become the largest union at a video game company in the United States, while Microsoft pledged to stay neutral on the vote.

Microsoft, once again a juggernaut thanks to artificial intelligence, wants to be seen as an ethical employer. Is there a catch?

The grant will go toward chips for the auto and defense industries, and is the largest award to date from $39 billion in government funding.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have been on a layoff spree this month, with the latest cuts differing from last year’s mass reductions.

Some tech workers are filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media. They say it’s part catharsis, part transparency.

Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology.

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.

The cuts follow a tough year in which the tech industry laid off tens of thousands of workers.

The National Labor Relations Board said the rocket company had wrongly dismissed eight people for a letter raising concerns about the chief executive.

Workers seeking a collective agreement from the automaker say they are pushing for their rights, but car owners see them as taking the fight too far.