On January 29th, Amazon made an official announcement via a blog post and an internal memo, revealing its decision to lay off 16,000 employees once more. This strategic move is aimed at bolstering its competitive position in the ongoing AI race. Notably, this marks the second instance of significant layoffs within a mere three-month span. When aggregated with the 14,000 employees who were let go in late October of the previous year, the cumulative number of layoffs across these two rounds represents roughly 9% of Amazon's total corporate workforce.
