New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Amazon announced on Tuesday that it plans to cut nearly 14,000 corporate jobs, just months after CEO Andy Jassy had warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could reduce the company's workforce.

In a surprising twist during Amazon's quarterly earnings call on Thursday, Andy Jassy clarified that the layoffs were not about cost-cutting or the adoption of AI. Instead, he said the affected employees did not align with Amazon's culture. This marked the first time he addressed the layoffs since their announcement.

"The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it's not even really AI-driven, not right now at least," Andy Jassy said, adding that "it really - it's culture."

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