Amazon is laying off 16,000 more workers as AI accelerates tech job losses

Photo: AWS at the 2021 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. AWS is the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com, Inc.. Photo credit: Web Summit via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Catherine Baab. Quartz – January 28, 2026.

Amazon $AMZN -0.68% is laying off 16,000 employees in its latest round of job cuts. A company email Tuesday, apparently sent in error, broke the news of “organizational changes” within the company’s cloud unit. Then on Wednesday, a post from Beth Galetti, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology, appeared on Amazon’s corporate website, confirming the reduction. […]

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