Amazon's HR chief also explained the 14,000 cuts in part by saying AI is helping companies innovate faster.

Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Matt Day sizes up Amazon’s place in the changing cloud computing market.

A major outage last week disrupted Amazon's cloud division for 15 hours, affecting hundreds of companies and raising questions about AWS' resilience.

Amazon's AI systems and advanced technology will create a "safe, more productive" environment for employees as the e-commerce giant plans to avoid hiring 600,000 workers by 2033.

Amazon has announced it will be scything more than 14,000 jobs as part of its efforts to streamline operations in the era of artificial intelligence.

The other thing that makes this seem different from past layoffs is who is affected. Amazon has already optimized its warehouses. It isn’t cutting the workers who handle packages—in fact, the company plans to hire 250,000 seasonal employees to ramp up for the holidays.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said earlier this year that the Washington-based company could shrink its workforce by embracing AI. The firm is part of a cohort of large-cap companies that have seen their AI-related productivity increase as the technology becomes mainstream.