Amazon, layoffs
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CEO Andy Jassy had signaled that Amazon’s workforce would likely get smaller as the company increases its use of artificial intelligence to complete tasks normally handled by people.
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly planning to let go up to 30,000 employees in what would be its largest ever round of layoffs.
Amazon's cloud division AWS faces growing challenges in the age of AI, with recent outages and competition from Alphabet's Google and Microsoft.
The outage affected thousands of organisations – and shows the danger of putting all of your data in one basket.
Amazon declined to comment when contacted by the BBC. If confirmed, the layoffs could be one of the largest seen in recent months. It would be Amazon's biggest cuts since 2022, when the company let go of around 27,