Amazon laid off some employees in its artificial general intelligence unit, CNBC reported on July 22. The headline is the detail we can confirm; we did not access the article text.
The cuts are a reminder that layoffs in 2026 are not limited to roles seen as exposed to automation: teams working on AI itself are being reorganized as companies reallocate spending to computing infrastructure. Search coverage also cites a count of more than 30,000 Amazon layoffs since last October, which we have not independently verified.
Source: CNBC