Amazon confirmed plans to reduce its corporate workforce, impacting 14,000 employees. The company cited a need to be more lean and the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence as reasons for the cuts. Those who do not find a new role will be offered severance pay and other transition benefits.

The company didn’t say how many video-game jobs will be cut, but noted in a memo Tuesday that “significant role reductions” would fall on its offices in Irvine and San Diego, as well as its central publishing division.

Following its latest mass layoff announcement, Amazon is shifting away from game development and ending support for New World.

Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.

The impending corporate layoffs amount to the largest such job reduction in the company's history, CNBC and Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.