Amazon has confirmed it will cut 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a strategic shift towards artificial intelligence.

The AI-related layoffs at Amazon and some other firms reflect a "hollowing out of middle-skilled workers," Lynn Wu, a professor of operations, information and decisions at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News.

The direct action taken by companies to cut jobs, for different reasons, may act as a warning that a snowball effect could be in the works.

Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.

Although Nvidia remains popular with many billionaire investors, it's not their favorite AI stock. The only AI common denominator for billionaires Ken Griffin, Izzy Englander, Chase Coleman, David Tepper, Bill Ackman, and Warren Buffett is Amazon.

Twitch is facing another brutal round of layoffs as Amazon slashes tens of thousands of jobs amid a major pivot to artificial intelligence.

Amazon.com said on Wednesday it has launched its compute cluster project called Rainier, and added that artificial intelligence firm Anthropic will use more than a million chips of the infrastructure by the end of the year.

Amazon said it has completed its Project Rainier data-center cluster, which is powered by nearly 500,000 of the company’s Trainium 2 chips.