Alphabet Inc.’s Google is laying off hundreds of employees across several of their departments such as central engineering, Google Voice Assistant and the hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit as part of its ongoing cost-cutting actions, according to media reports on Thursday. The augmented reality (AR) hardware team is the most affected, with hundreds of roles being eliminated. The move comes as Google works on an OEM-partnership model for AR hardware and is no longer working on its own AR hardware. As for the hardware team, Google is looking to have only one centralized team t…