Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.
CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggressively sought to cut costs since becoming CEO in 2021, said in June that he anticipated generative AI would reduce Amazon's corporate workforce in the next few years.
CBC News reached out to a spokesperson for Amazon to ask whether any Canadian employees are impacted by the layoffs and did not receive a response.
Jassy said at the time that Amazon had more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications in progress or built, but that figure was a "small fraction" of what it plans to build.
Jassy encouraged employees to get on board with the company's AI plans.
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