Amazon said Tuesday that it is cutting about 14,000 corporate roles as the e-commerce giant expands its investment in AI.

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, said in a blog post that the layoffs are part of an effort to continue “reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure we’re investing in our biggest bets.”

“This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it's enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones),” Galetti wrote in the message that was initially shared with Amazon employees.

“We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly

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