Amazon CEO says it will cut jobs due to AI’s ‘efficiency’
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that AI advancements will lead to job cuts in the company's corporate workforce over the next few years. Jassy cited "efficiency gains" from AI as the reason, encouraging employees to become familiar with AI to remain valuable. This follows Amazon's recent layoffs of over 27,000 workers since 2022 and aligns with other tech companies' AI-driven workforce changes.
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