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This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 30-year-old Shahad Ishraq, from Germany. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Reading Andy Jassy’s new memo on generative AI, I’m not surprised by anything.I worked at Amazon for nearly three and a half years and left in late…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees Tuesday that AI will shrink the company’s corporate white-collar workforce over the next few years, citing “efficiency gains” as the driving force.Amazon employees weren’t having it.Across internal Slack channels, Amazon’s white-collar workers tore into Jassy’s message, taking aim at his leadership and unapologetic push…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has a blunt new message about AI: It is going to “reduce” the company’s workforce in the next few years.”As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,” Jassy said in a memo posted to the Amazon…
Amazon staff demanded Cursor. They may be about to get it.According to internal Slack messages, reviewed by Business Insider, several Amazon employees inquired about using the AI coding assistant Cursor at work. In response, an HR manager wrote that Amazon is in talks with Cursor’s team to formally adopt the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Markley, a 58-year-old former Amazon employee, based in Seattle. It’s been edited for length and clarity.During my seven years at Amazon, I conducted over 500 interviews and earned my title as a bar raiser, an objective, third-party interviewer tasked with…
When Amazon unveiled its Vulcan touch-sensing warehouse robot last week, it framed the technology as a way to make frontline jobs safer and easier.What the company didn’t mention is a broader ambition: using Vulcan and its expanding fleet of warehouse robots to reduce its need to hire a lot more…
Amazon is going back to FedEx after falling out with UPS.According to an internal document obtained by Business Insider, Amazon signed a new partnership deal with FedEx in late February to handle some parts of its package deliveries.The FedEx deal gives Amazon “cost favorability” compared to UPS, the document said,…
Ukraine has launched a program that awards points to soldiers who verifiably kill Russian troops or destroy their equipment. They can then use these rewards to purchase drones and other weapons from an online “Amazon”-style marketplace.Mykhailo Fedorov, who serves as Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, said this week that his…
Andy Jassy said he doesn’t have the “perfect answer” for CEOs as companies grapple with whiplash over tariffs — but he has some advice: “Stay focused.””You can get distracted by, you know, are there going to be tariffs? How high are the tariffs? Are there not going to be tariffs?…
Three teenage boys in New York City have invented a clever packaging material that they hope will replace toxic plastics and make plastic-free shipping a reality.Zhi Han (Anthony) Yao, Flint Mueller, and James Clare are planning to pursue a patent and eventually pitch their product to Home Depot, as well…
