Amazon Cuts Hundreds of Jobs While Pouring Billions Into AI Infrastructure

Amazon is laying off hundreds as part of cost-cutting, even as it ramps AI infrastructure spending — a sharp counterpoint to the AI-as-job-creator narrative.

Amazon is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a broader cost-cutting effort, even as it continues to make massive AI infrastructure investments, @BusinessInsider reported. The juxtaposition is stark: capital flowing into data centers and chips on one side, headcount coming out on the other.

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