They laid off the people to free up money to build the data centers. This is what a lot of companies mean when they say they laid people off because of AI. It’s not because the AI did their jobs.
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Yeah? They were slammed? slammed? Shitty journalism.
I hope Amazon corporate starts unionizing. Amazon deserves it.
So slammed dude!
I've seen softcore porn with more slamming than anything the media has done to Amazon.
SLAM!
Haven't seen 'slam' for a hot minute.
I'm seeing a lot of it in the comments!
A unionized Amazon R&D could be world-changing. Not only workers would take a lot of money from Jeff, but the power to shutdown a third of the world's cloud infrastructure, including gov't cloud infra is quite a bit more significant that what many other unions wield.
Someone needs to make “slam” a synonym for “unionize”.
SLAM
Oh Snap! Y'all got slammed, son!
Oh, shit! Amazon got slammed! What are they going to do now?