{"id":176204,"date":"2023-11-17T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/leaked-emails-show-amazon-is-cutting-several-hundred-jobs-across-alexa-business-including-the-newly-launched-artificial-general-intelligence-team"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:23:31","slug":"leaked-emails-show-amazon-is-cutting-several-hundred-jobs-across-alexa-business-including-the-newly-launched-artificial-general-intelligence-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/leaked-emails-show-amazon-is-cutting-several-hundred-jobs-across-alexa-business-including-the-newly-launched-artificial-general-intelligence-team","title":{"rendered":"Leaked emails show Amazon is cutting \u2018several hundred\u2019 jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leaked-emails-show-amazon-is-cutting-several-hundred-jobs-across-alexa-business-including-the-newly-launched-artificial-general-intelligence-team.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s Alexa business is laying off \u201cseveral hundred\u201d employees, including those on its recently launched artificial general intelligence team, Business Insider has learned.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Amazon\u2019s VP of Alexa and Fire TV Daniel Rausch told his team about the layoffs, saying it\u2019s intended to shift the company\u2019s resources to focus on generative AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we continue to invent, we\u2019re shifting some of our efforts to better align with our business priorities, and what we know matters most to customers \u2014 which includes maximizing our resources and efforts focused on generative AI. These shifts are leading us to discontinue some initiatives, which is resulting in several hundred roles being eliminated,\u201d Rausch wrote in the email, obtained by BI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s Alexa business is laying off \u201cseveral hundred\u201d employees, including those on its recently launched artificial general intelligence team, Business Insider has learned. On Friday, Amazon\u2019s VP of Alexa and Fire TV Daniel Rausch told his team about the layoffs, saying it\u2019s intended to shift the company\u2019s resources to focus on generative AI. \u201cAs we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}