"Appen Faces Crisis as Alphabet Cuts Ties and Google Cuts Jobs"

Alphabet has terminated its contract with Appen, an Australian AI data firm that helped train Google's chatbot Bard and other AI products, impacting at least two thousand subcontracted workers. Appen, which has struggled with declining revenue and stock prices, has had conflicts with Google in the past over labor issues. The company will now focus on managing costs and turning the business around after the termination of the Google contract.