Amazon has announced an approximately 14,000 person reduction in its corporate workforce. The news follows an earlier report from Reuters that up to 30,000 people could be let go. Amazon has confirmed to Engadget that the 14,000 roles were eliminated today.
Amazon declined to comment on which departments are impacted, but Bloomberg reports that layoffs occurred within teams such as video games, logistics, payments and cloud-computing.
The impetus for this reduction is, of course, AI. In the
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