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Amazon.com on Friday announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing "shifting" business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial intelligence.

Amazon.com has cut around 180 jobs in its games division, at least the second round of layoffs in under a week by the online retailer and digital streaming provider in a broader restructuring, an email viewed on Monday by Reuters showed.

Amazon has laid off about 500 employees in India across different verticals, reports said.

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Raj Thakur, one of those sacked by Amazon, has only 60 days from the date he was laid off to get re-employed in the US, by an employer to take him on on H-1B non-immigration short-term visa for foreign workers.

Harsh worked as an intern with the company, for three months in 2021.

Harsh joined Amazon in Bengaluru as a software development engineer in July 2022, according to his LinkedIn post.

The Amazon CEO said in a statement that they were not done with the annual planning process as earlier mentioned, and

Amazon says it plans to lay off more than 18,000 employees as the global economic outlook continues to worsen.

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