If I’m reading between the lines correctly the cuts have nothing to do with AI and it’s not clear Amazon said that they did, they cited closing some Fresh and Go stores, discontinuing some products (some biometric hand scanner), cutting back on what they described as overhiring during covid, generally reducing bureaucracy.

The journalist, however, throws in an AI connection seemingly unrelatedly at the end and talks about how amazon is improving their robot technology. Wonder if someone is being paid to try to make things about AI even when they’re not.

Further proof the the AI bubble is the only thing concealing that we're in a recession. Overhired for Covid? Fine. But that was six fucking years ago, so you're not really being proactive.