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Ashley Stewart @ Business Insider · today 13:58 EDT

An Amazon employee used an AI tool to analyze potential teams affected by layoffs. Read the list.

Amazon plans to lay off 16,000 employees, impacting teams like AWS and Alexa. An employee used an AI tool to list potentially affected areas.

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