Amazon earnings preview: Wall Street zeroes in on AWS and AI investments ahead of Q3 report

Amazon will report earnings after the closing bell on Thursday. Analysts want updates on AI progress, AWS, and retail margins.

Amazon to Hire 250,000 Seasonal Workers Despite Laying Off 30,000 Corporate Staff

Amazon ramps up hiring for the holiday season with 250,000 seasonal workers, even as it begins laying off 30,000 corporate employees. The company is accelerating its push into automation and AI.

Is Amazon’s once-dominant cloud business losing its edge in the AI race?

A major outage last week disrupted Amazon's cloud division for 15 hours, affecting hundreds of companies and raising questions about AWS' resilience.

Everyone thinks AI is replacing factory workers, but Amazon’s layoffs show it’s coming for middle management first

As Amazon slashes 14,000 white-collar roles and the U.S. approaches a million job cuts this year, AI’s first major labor casualty might be emerging.

Amazon Says It Will Lay Off 14,000 Corporate Workers, Citing Rapid AI Development: ‘The World Is Changing Quickly’

Amazon said it will cut approximately 14,000 white-collar jobs as it seeks to gain efficiencies -- and as it prepares for advances in artificial intelligence in running the company.

Walmart Just Fired A Big AI Shot Across Amazon’s Bow

Walmart and OpenAI join forces to bring AI-powered shopping to ChatGPT, forever changing search, discovery, and retail competition with Amazon.

Exclusive: How Amazon built its biggest AI data center in a year, now powering Anthropic

Amazon’s biggest AI data center is now operational in Indiana, with half a million AWS Trainium2 chips entirely devoted to powering OpenAI rival Anthropic. Just over a year ago, it was nothing but cornfields.

Amazon VP tells remaining workers to 'lean in on AI' in internal memo after massive layoffs

Amazon's HR chief also explained the 14,000 cuts in part by saying AI is helping companies innovate faster.
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