Alphabet, Google’s parent, announced on January 20, 2023 that it would cut about 12,000 jobs (roughly 6% of its global workforce) in a major round of layoffs affecting teams across the company, as detailed in CEO Sundar Pichai’s memo and contemporaneous news coverage. (cnbc.com) This announcement came about two months after the November 19, 2022 podcast episode, which reasonably qualifies as the “near future,” and it directly matches Friedberg’s prediction that it was inevitable Alphabet/Google would implement headcount reductions, i.e., “there will likely be some reduction.”