Amazon layoffs not driven by AI but by culture: CEO Andy Jassy

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims that the company’s latest layoffs, affecting 14,000 employees, were not about cutting costs or driven by AI.

“The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven, not right now at least,” he said. “It really — it’s culture.”

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, said in a blog post that the move was part of “reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources,” echoing Jassy’s earlier comments.