Amazon News 2 01/2026
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Further Layoffs at Amazon
Reuters reported last week that Amazon is planning further job cuts for the end of January. This is part of Amazon's goal to eliminate approximately 30,000 corporate positions.
14,000 Jobs Were Already Cut in October
We recall the reports from October 2025, when it became known that Amazon had cut 14,000 jobs. The expectation therefore suggests that this will involve a similar scale of cuts.
According to internal sources available to Reuters, the positions are primarily in the following core areas:
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Retail (retail division)
Prime Video
HR
Background on the Layoffs
Internally, the steps are justified by CEO Andy Jassy seeing primarily corporate cultural differences. It was explicitly stated that this is not about financial or AI efficiency reasons. Main reasons are bureaucracy and too many management levels within the corporation.
This would be the largest job reduction in Amazon's history. The affected employees from the October wave received a 90-day continued employment at the time, which expired on Monday.
New layoffs may have already been carried out by the time our newsletter appears.
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Amazon One Medical Introduces Agentic Health AI
Last week, there was a lot happening again in the AI space: OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health. In the separate interface, interested users can share their health data from other apps with ChatGPT. The assistant is then supposed to help understand lab values, provide nutrition and fitness tips.
Shortly After, Amazon Published Its Own AI Agent for Healthcare
Amazon is also focusing on integration of third-party apps like Apple Health to gain access to body measurement data and lab values. The agentic AI then creates personalized recommendations, similar to ChatGPT's product.
Book Doctor Appointments, Renew Prescriptions
Amazon itself states that the assistant should also be able to book doctor appointments for the user, renew medication prescriptions, and evaluate lab values and results.
Amazon's Response to the US Healthcare System
Due to massive savings in the US healthcare system, the market for private providers is growing – and Amazon as well as OpenAI are responding to this. The American system is complicated, very fragmented, and difficult to access for many people. Amazon wants to solve this with the agentic AI healthcare agent and help people live better lives.
Amazon further states that tools and offerings like this also significantly relieve doctors in management and administration: Simple follow-up questions or explanations of results from labs can be handled by the AI and provide direct answers to the user.
New Prime Addon
The new agent is already enabled for all Amazon One Medical users. There is also an affordable premium version for $9 per month, through which appointments with doctors can be directly scheduled.
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Eagerly Awaited: Amazon's Financials for Q4 and the Year 2025
According to Amazon's own blog, the eagerly awaited Q4 and annual figures from 2025 are expected for February 5.
When Will the Earnings Call Take Place?
The traditional earnings call takes place on February 5 at 2:00 PM (PT). This corresponds to 11:00 PM our time.
We will of course talk directly about this on LinkedIn and in our podcast appearing on February 6 about the interpretation of the figures published by Amazon. Especially interesting here are the numbers and performance for Black Friday, how these will relate to the overall Q4 growth result.
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