Amazon recently announced pretty heavy job cuts, and it seems they’re pulling back on video game funding with New World: Aeternum no longer being supported. In the Amazon announcement they noted “an overall reduction in our corporate workforce of approximately 14,000 roles”. Ouch.

Why? They don’t actually say exactly why in the announcement, but of course it’s AI-related:

Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well. Across our businesses, we’re delivering great customer experiences every day, innovating at a rapid rate, and producing strong business results. What we need to remember is that the world is changing quickly. This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We’re convinced that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.