Amazon’s AI-led layoffs hit 16,000 more jobs as restructuring deepens

Amazon confirmed another 16,000 corporate job cuts, taking this restructuring wave to nearly 30,000 white-collar roles in just months.

Executives are framing the move as streamlining for the AI era, with budget and headcount being shifted toward automation and AI infrastructure.

The scale is intensifying fears that this is not a one-off tech reset, but the early shape of how large companies will rebuild workforces around AI.