New Delhi, June 5 -- Google has laid off employees across its Cloud division over the past fortnight, Business Insider first reported, with the reductions affecting some of the company's most prominent security teams as the company continues to restructure its workforce amid a wider industry push towards artificial intelligence investment.

The cuts reached Google's Threat Intelligence Group, one of the company's foremost security divisions and a team widely recognised for its published research on state-sponsored hackers and cyber threats, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Business Insider. Employees within the unit began posting about the redundancies on LinkedIn following the cuts.

The reductions were not c...