https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/26/apple-car-layoffs-signal-focus-on-ai.html

It's not often you hear about layoffs at Apple.

So it came as a surprise Wednesday when CNBC learned that Apple was removing 200 employees from its self-driving car unit. Apple confirmed the staffing change, but reading between the lines of a spokesperson's statement, it sounds like the move is the latest in the company's broader goal to improve its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities as it faces increased competition from rivals Google and Amazon.