Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees, the company’s second round of massive job reductions in two months as it fights to improve its standing in the battle for AI supremacy.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN.O) on Tuesday appeared to have prematurely alerted Amazon Web Services cloud-computing employees to layoffs planned for Wednesday morning by sending a commiseration email and team-wide meeting invitation hours early.

Amazon acknowledged it hasn't yet "created a truly distinctive customer experience" in announcing move to scale back its brick-and-mortar grocery business.

Amazon plans to close its Fresh supermarkets and Go convenience marts, and convert some locations into Whole Foods stores.

Amazon is laying off another 16,000 staff and is reported to have accidentally emailed one of its teams a day early with the news. Amazon posted the news publicly via a note from Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience,

Amazon also is testing a new in-store format called Amazon Grocery, which it launched alongside Whole Foods Market in Chicago. This concept at Whole Foods Market in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, lets customer also shop for groceries and household essentials from Amazon