Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees, the company’s second round of massive job reductions in two months as it fights to improve its standing in the battle for AI supremacy.

The latest round of terminations follows another mass layoff by the company in October last year, where around 14,000 workers were let go.

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

An internal email referring to a new wave of redundancies was sent to a number of Amazon employees before being cancelled.

Amazon plans to eliminate around 16,000 corporate jobs in its second round of massive layoffs since October. Will Amazon Music be affected? The bloodletting continues. On Wednesday—after an internal email leaked—Amazon announced plans to cut about 16,

Amazon said on Wednesday it was cutting 16,000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months, as it restructures after pandemic-era over-hiring and expands the adoption of artificial intelligence tools.

Amazon is cutting another 16,000 jobs, just three months after slashing 14,000 roles across the company. Why it matters: Seattle is Amazon's hometown, and repeated rounds of layoffs hit here harder than raw job numbers suggest.

Amazon is eliminating 16,000 positions, company officials said Wednesday, just months after announcing job cuts affecting 14,000 roles in October. This new round of layoffs was a way to "strengthen our organization by reducing layers,