Amazon is reducing its corporate workforce by about 14,000 in a move it described as an effort to “reduce bureaucracy” and “operate like the world’s largest startup.”

Amazon said on Tuesday (October 28) it will reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 people, with more cuts expected next year, in a major shakeup driven in part by adoption of artificial...

In June, CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggressively sought to cut costs since becoming CEO in 2021, said that he anticipated generative AI would reduce Amazon's corporate workforce in the next few years.

Hurricane Melissa is closing in on Jamaica.

For Rob Cuff and his wife Leah, their Jamaican honeymoon is coming to an uncertain end as Hurricane Melissa, the world's most powerful storm this year, bears down on the Caribbean island.

"Today will be very difficult for tens of thousands, if not millions of people in Jamaica," IFRC's Necephor Mghendi said via video link from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.

The fate of President Donald Trump’s planned $300 million White House ballroom is set to rest with a little-known urban planning committee now led by his allies.

Now, he has demolished the East Wing of the White House to build one — a 90,000-square-foot, $300 million endeavor, which is the largest renovation to the White House in decades.