Hello, and welcome to today’s quick briefing. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy just sent a message to the company’s 1.5 million employees, praising generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that’s already in “virtually every corner of the company.” He revealed that Amazon has over a thousand AI services and applications in progress—a small fraction of what’s to come—and that the company plans to invest $100 billion in AI this year.

But here’s the catch: Jassy warned that these efficiency gains will ultimately “reduce our total corporate workforce.” In other words, roles that exist today may disappear as AI tools take over routine tasks. His advice to employees? “Be curious about AI, educate yourself, attend workshops and take trainings, use and experiment with AI whenever you can.”

Amazon has already cut roughly 27,000 jobs since 2022, and insiders expect more layoffs soon. Is this a bold leap into the future of work or just a savvy way to trim costs and boost profits? Either way, the message is clear: AI is coming, and companies are gearing up to ride the wave—whether every worker hangs on or not.
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