Amazon cuts over 2,300 jobs in Washington as employees warn of AI risks Monica Nickelsburg October 29, 2025 / 10:50 am

The local impact of Amazon’s latest round of layoffs is coming into focus.

Of the 14,000 employees Amazon laid off this week, 2,303 were in its home state of Washington, according to a state filing.

In addition to streamlining and removing bureaucracy, Amazon officials say artificial intelligence is driving the layoffs in two key ways.

First, reducing headcount frees up capital for Amazon's multi-billion-dollar data center building spree. Tech companies are spending aggressively to build out the infrastructure needed to train and power frontier AI models.

Second, Amazon appears to be betting AI can reduce the number of employees the company needs.

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