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Title: Apple reportedly slashes its Project Titan team by 200 workers as auto division 'focuses their work’ Post by: HCK on January 28, 2019, 04:05:12 pm Apple reportedly slashes its Project Titan team by 200 workers as auto division 'focuses their work’
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Falling iPhone sales (https://www.macworld.com/article/3331176/apple-phone/iphone-sales-slump-fix.html) have apparently claimed their first victim. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/apple-lays-off-over-200-from-project-titan-autonomous-vehicle-group.html" rel="nofollow">According to a report by CNBC[/url] and confirmed by Apple, some 200 members of Apple’s Project Titan autonomous car project have been removed from the group, as Apple re-evaluates the role artificial intelligence and machine learning plays in its products.</p><p>This is hardly the first time Apple’s car division has reportedly fallen on hard times (https://www.macworld.com/article/3132574/car-tech/whats-next-for-project-titan-and-the-apple-car.html). Rumored for years as the next big thing to come out of Cupertino, the Bob Mansfield-headed Project Titan team has grown and shrunk as Apple’s ambitions have reportedly shifted from building its own car to designing an autonomous driving system for third-party vehicles. Now it seems that the strategy is changing again, as Apple looks to apply the fruits of Project Titan’s labors to other areas:</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3336181/apple/apple-project-titan-cuts.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple reportedly slashes its Project Titan team by 200 workers as auto division 'focuses their work’ (https://www.macworld.com/article/3336181/apple/apple-project-titan-cuts.html#tk.rss_all) |