Sources familiar with Amazon’s internal plans report that the company will execute its second wave of job cuts as early as next week, targeting an additional several thousand corporate roles. This action is part of Amazon’s broader initiative to reduce its white-collar workforce by approximately 30,000 positions over the past year. The initial round, announced in November 2025, eliminated roughly 18,000 roles across advertising, devices and human resources; this next tranche is said to focus on teams supporting grocery, advertising technology and internal finance, as the company seeks to reallocate spending toward artificial‐intelligence infrastructure and fulfillment capacity.

At a public hearing in Orland Park, Illinois, Amazon detailed its proposal to build a 230,000-square-foot “big-box” store on a 35-acre site, combining a full grocery, general merchandise and prepared‐food retail operation with a dedicated fulfillment center. Half of the space will serve walk-in customers via separate entrances, while the other half will house back-of-house order assembly and third-party delivery staging. The village board approved the project without offering tax incentives, noting that the development is expected to generate about 200 construction jobs and 500 permanent roles, as well as several million dollars in annual sales and property tax revenue.

On January 21, Amazon launched Health AI, an agentic artificial-intelligence assistant integrated into its One Medical mobile application. Developed in collaboration with One Medical’s clinical leadership, the feature leverages large-language models and a patient’s own medical records to provide personalized guidance—fielding health inquiries, managing medication schedules and facilitating same- or next-day appointment bookings. While Health AI is programmed to defer any diagnostic or treatment recommendations that fall outside its protocols, Amazon expects the tool to streamline routine inquiries and allow care teams to focus on more complex patient needs.