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Amazon is preparing for one of its most significant corporate job cuts ever, targeting roughly 30,000 jobs. This new restructuring plan is aimed at cutting costs and increasing profitability. The recent increase in AI is also a factor in the job cuts, as Amazon sees many opportunities for AI to take over human jobs, reducing costs. These changes are all for Amazon’s effort to streamline its management system.

This claim is valid because Reuters received information directly from insiders and internal documents that show Amazon’s new job-cutting plan. Multiple anonymous sources confirmed an estimate of 30,000 job cuts, and the timing aligns with Amazon’s cost saving measures, which they publicly announced before the article. The number of layouts matches up with Amazon’s shift in cost priorities, which confirms the claim

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