The company’s latest round of layoffs reflect the growing competition for dominance in artificial intelligence.

The e-commerce giant appears to have inadvertently tipped off some employees to layoffs planned for Wednesday, Jan. 28, by sending an errant email.

Amazon is cutting another 16,000 jobs as the technology giant continues to remake itself in “a world that’s changing faster than ever,” as noted in a memo to staff Wednesday from Beth Galetti, who leads human resources operations for the company.

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) just announced 16,000 job cuts worldwide, the second massive layoff in four months following 14,000 cuts in October. Combined, that’s 30,000 corporate roles eliminated in 120 days.

Analysts and AWS watchers agree that the roughly 15,000 cuts are caused by ‘culture’, but there is disagreement about what that actually means.

Amazon told about 16,000 corporate employees they’ll soon be out of a job early Wednesday morning. It’s part two of a 30,000-person layoff the company began in October. Taken together, it’s the largest layoff in the e-commerce giant’s history,

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