**Employee Inquiries on Layoffs Challenge Google’s CEO**

Sundar Pichai Addresses Employee Concerns at This Week’s Company-wide Meeting. Additionally: ByteDance’s Emphasis on ‘Urgency’ and Meta’s Significant Developments.

Authored by Alex Heath, a deputy editor and the creator of the Command Line newsletter, with over a decade of experience covering the technology sector for The Information and various other publications.

Greetings on this Friday. I bring you exclusive insights from within Google, where I have acquired audio recordings of CEO Sundar Pichai tackling issues raised by employees regarding layoffs, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, and more.

Delve into the details below, along with a focus on ByteDance CEO’s drive for “urgency” and highlights from Meta’s eventful week.