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

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

Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months.

While Amazon doesn't explicitly state what that means, the New York Times reports that the company intends to shift resources to artificial intelligence and the data centers that AI requires. As mentioned in their report, Amazon spent around $125 billion last year on data centers and related expenditures.

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.