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Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy’s explanation for why the company is cutting 14,000 employees? Not money. Not even AI, but “culture.”
During Amazon's earnings call, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant was committed to "meeting or beating prices of other major retailers," as shoppers grapple with higher costs of living and concerns about tariffs.
The layoff announcement, he told analysts on Thursday’s earnings call, was “not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI driven, not right now."
Amazon.com plans to continue spending on capacity to meet demand for artificial intelligence and cloud products.
Accelerating a business at the scale of AWS, which has an $132 billion annualized run rate, is no easy feat, President and CEO Andy Jassy highlighted on the earnings call. While Amazon's cloud-computing competitors might have higher percentage growth,
Amazon is reportedly set to eliminate a significant portion of its workforce. CEO Andy Jassy is on the hunt for AI-driven profits. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) intends to slash as many as 30,000 corporate jobs,