Like Google and Meta Platforms, Amazon knows exactly how to infuse AI into its business operations such as online retail, transportation, advertising, and even the Amazon Web Services cloud. Just like Google and IBM have been their own Customer Zero for AI efforts, Amazon has been learning how to use AI to replace or enhance business functions, not just for itself but so it can better understand how to sell such expertise to external customers and get them using the AWS cloud.
So it is not, we think, a coincidence at all that Amazon has laid off what looks like more than 60,000 people in its corporate employee base. Some of these layoffs have to do with over-hiring during coronavirus pandemic that started in 2020; some of it is just “workforce rebalancing” as IBM has called it for years. But, the fact remains that there are more corporate workers today than there were five years ago, and on top of that, there are another 1.2 million warehouse employees at Amazon (down about…
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