As suspected, the FT has now released detailed reporting. Despite the CEO claiming this is not related to AI or financial decisions citing 'cultural fit' instead the FT reports that Amazon is set to axe another 16,000 corporate jobs amid higher spending on AI. https://archive.ph/XO9Qo#selection-1581.81-1581.107 Oh, they are investing $10bn in OpenAI and $118bn in AWS data centre expansion and AI capex etc. At least be honest if you are firing people to fund your AI and investments in other AI companies. We are not fools

@nixCraft openly stating that a shitty action is part of one's culture is a hallmark of an asshole society.

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What cultural reasons led him to make this decision? Doesn't he worry about political correctness?

if it is not a financial issue, then why fire so many people? LOL.

They changed their tone recently. Instead of telling the press AI has resulted in job loss, now they are saying those people were not "culturally" fit. They are doing this because AI is getting bad and negative press, and it bothers them when social media tags their CEOs and company handles, or reputed media shows how big tech is replacing tech workers with AI. So they changed the narration to keep stock UP! That is what I think