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

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

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

Where Big Tech goes, the rest of the business world will likely follow. So what can we glean from Amazon's layoffs? Fortunately, my colleagues Eugene Kim and Ashley Stewart are crushing it with scoops.

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.

Yesterday, Amazon cut its head count by sixteen thousand employees. KUOW’s AI and Economy reporter Monica Nickelsburg will explain what this means about the company’s future plans and how it might affect us here in Seattle.