Google Restructures Ad Sales Unit, 30,000 Jobs Potentially Impacted by Advances in AI Advertising
• Google planning to reorganize 30,000-employee ad sales unit due to advances in AI that can automatically create ads
• Many ad sales jobs becoming redundant as more advertisers adopt Google's AI-powered Performance Max ad tool
• Report comes after Google laid off 12,000 employees earlier this year in largest job cut in company history
• Google President Sean Downey announced restructuring but did not confirm if it will lead to more job cuts
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai said laying off 12,000 people last year was "difficult but necessary" decision