This has nothing to do with AI, consumers don't have any cash left and sales are falling off a cliff. Remember how they had to extend Prime Days?

"Blames AI" is a weird way to put it, and I think that was on purpose, to deflect comments from the real reason. Not talking about the recession we are currently in is the equivalent of going to the pub and waiting for it blow over.

Executives replace human talent with the scam they are trying to sell, servers collapse.

somehow, it's not the executive's fault.

fucking twats.

Galetti also espoused the benefits of AI in her message to employees, and claimed the oft-criticized technology is already allowing companies like Amazon to "innovate much faster than ever before." She suggested it's important for the company to reduce its headcount in order to take advantage of the perceived opportunity presented by the tech.

This screams of, we need to cut heads so we can pretend to be innovating with AI somehow Most likely, they are just hiding all the sunken AI investment that has returned nothing in terms of revenue

This was always the plan, always why they were excited about AI, and even after it blows up in their faces, they're gonna keep pursuing it.

I'm still trying to figure out how every CEO wants to replace nearly the entire workforce with AI, but somehow still thinks that anyone in society will be able to buy their products after they do that. Make it make sense.

That’s like 14 mid sized businesses all cut down at once. Why didn’t those 14,000 people work hard enough to become billionaires?

Increase ownership is just a buzz word for giving more work to less people

It's not AI, that's just their current excuse. They will just make remaining employees do more work for the same pay.

“Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,” Galetti wrote. “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly.”