The AI-related layoffs at Amazon and some other firms reflect a "hollowing out of middle-skilled workers," Lynn Wu, a professor of operations, information and decisions at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News.

Amazon has confirmed it will cut 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a strategic shift towards artificial intelligence.

The company's top human resources executive said Tuesday that the tech giant needs to be "organized more leanly" due to the "transformative" nature of AI.

Business Insider's reporters walk through the big layoffs at Amazon, why the cuts came, and who could be next.

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.

Amazon.com said on Wednesday it has launched its compute cluster project called Rainier, and added that artificial intelligence firm Anthropic will use more than a million chips of the infrastructure by the end of the year.

Amazon has multiple businesses that would be unaffected if an AI bubble bursts. Most of Alphabet's revenue comes from its Google Search engine, which is in great shape. Meta Platforms derives nearly all of its revenue from ads on its social media platforms.

Amazon said it has completed its Project Rainier data-center cluster, which is powered by nearly 500,000 of the company’s Trainium 2 chips.