Nest will “join forces” with Google’s hardware team. In other words, they’re rolling Nest under the Google/Alphabet umbrella after all. A rep from Nest tells us that the Nest brand will continue on within Google, living alongside the Google Home brand. They also confirmed that Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz will now report to Rick Osterloh, and that the company doesn’t “anticipate any significant role reductions” (in other words, they’re not planning to lay off a bunch of people as part of the merge).