Apple Cuts 600 Jobs After Dropping Self-Driving Car Project
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Apple is laying off over 600 employees in California , mainly affecting workers from its halted self-driving car project. On March 28, Apple notified the state’s employment department that 614 employees at various offices would be laid off in May. The employees were informed that layoffs would take effect on May 27.
Apple has reportedly stopped its plans to make electric vehicles (EVs) 10 years after it was first rumored to be working on such a project. The company has never officially confirmed the project, which reportedly included 2,000 people.
According to California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act filings , most layoffs occurred in Apple’s 8 Santa Clara offices. The specific departments or projects these workers were part of remain unclear.
Bloomberg reported that Apple laid off 371 workers from its main car project office in Santa Clara, California, and affected dozens more across other sites. Some of the car project team members were moved to other areas within the company, like artificial intelligence and personal robotics.
ESPN Will Be Fully Available on Disney+ Next Year
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Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the eagerly awaited ESPN standalone streaming service will be added to Disney+ in the fall of 2025. The announcement was made in a CNBC interview on Thursday. The service, which was first announced in 2023 , will give viewers access to “the full suite” of the ESPN network.
The new standalone offering is expected to be much bigger than the 2024 joint sports streaming venture of Disney-ESPN, FOX, and Warner Brothers-Discovery.
According to Iger, the new sports offering is “a one‐stop sports destination unlike anything available in the marketplace today.” The standalone service will cover live sports events and studio programming from the NFL, NBA, NASCAR, FIFA, PGA Tour, UFC, and college sports.
With the new app-based service, viewers would be able to enjoy a more “user-friendly, immersive, and personalized” experience. They would have access to ESPN Bet and fantasy sports, in addition to shopping and detailed sports stats.
Disney already offers ESPN+ as an alternative to the traditional cable package. With the existing service, viewers can stream live games but not the network’s live TV channels. There was no announcement from Disney regarding the continuation or cessation of ESPN+ after the 2025 launch of its standalone sports streaming service.
