Tracking how AI is reshaping roles, departments, and industries — updated daily.
AI & Jobs Amazon confirmed on October 7 that it cut roles in its Stores business, fewer than 1,000 according to Business Insider and Reuters. Amazon's statement names no number and no AI, and no Washington layoff notice had been filed when GeekWire reported.
AI & Jobs Amazon's Q2 profit more than tripled to $62.6B, it raised AI capex to $220B, and it kept trimming the AGI team building its Nova models.
AI & Jobs Amazon cut jobs inside the very group building its general-intelligence models — the AI unit is not safe from the AI layoffs it helped normalize.
AI & Jobs Jeff Bezos predicts AI will create a labor shortage — five months after Amazon cut 16,000 jobs citing AI. Both claims are being made with a straight face.
AI & Jobs Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta posted ~$430B of combined Q1 revenue and revised 2026 capex up to roughly $650B. In the same five trading days, Meta announced 8,000 layoffs plus 6,000 cancelled reqs, Microsoft put its first-ever buyout offer in front of 8,750 US workers, and the words 「efficiency」 and 「discipline」 appeared 15 times across the four earnings calls. Sam Altman calls this 「AI washing」. The Washington Post agrees.