Amazon's week included a White House screening of the "Melania" documentary and another massive round of layoffs.

The thesis that “every other corporate leader looks to copy this blueprint, they must rent the infrastructure from AWS” overstates AWS’s position. Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure all compete for enterprise AI workloads. AWS is the largest cloud provider, not the only one.

Across the 22 California stores that are slated to close, 3,855 workers will face possible layoffs.

Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it would be closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations, a decision that will soon affect nearly 1,000 employees here in Pennsylvania. According to a report by the Associated Press,

Amazon One palm scanning worked flawlessly. It's dying anyway—because Amazon forgot that even frictionless tech needs marketing to drive adoption.

E-commerce giant announced it will close its Amazon Fresh stores nationwide, including its stores in Citrus Heights, Elk Grove and Roseville

Amazon has confirmed it’s cutting 16,000 jobs from its global workforce as part of its plan to ‘reduce layers’ and ‘remove bureaucracy’ while leaning more heavily on AI. It’s unclear how many Canadian jobs will be affected.