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New Delhi: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has said that the company’s recent decision to lay off 14,000 corporate employees is not about cutting costs or replacing people with artificial intelligence (AI), but about keeping Amazon’s culture “nimble and startup-like.”

Speaking on Thursday, Jassy explained that the layoffs were not financially driven and were not connected to AI, at least not directly. “The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven, not right now, at least,” he said. “Really, it’s culture.”

His comments come after widespread speculation that the layoffs were part of a restructuring move to make space for more automation and AI-powered operations. Earli

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