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Amazon Layoff: In what could be called as one of the biggest job cuts in Amazon’s history, the e-commerce giant has started laying off around 14,000 corporate employees. The move comes as part of Amazon’s multiyear plan to cut costs and “run more efficiently,” even as it pours billions into developing artificial intelligence technologies.

In a blog post, Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, said the layoffs are meant to make the company “leaner and less bureaucratic.” She wrote, “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet… We need to be organised more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our cus

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