AI layoffs this week: Oct 27, 2025 – Nov 2, 2025

The largest event of the week was Amazon, with 14,000 roles cut (Largest corporate layoff of 2025: ~14,000 corporate roles cut, with reports of up to 30,000 planned. HR chief Beth Galetti's memo framed the cuts around the transformative impact of generative AI and the need to run leaner; CEO Andy Jassy had warned in June that AI would shrink the corporate workforce. On the Oct 30 earnings call Jassy walked the AI framing back, saying the cuts were about culture, not AI or finances.). Across the week, cuts touched technology, finance, education.

At least one event this week was later walked back. Walk-backs stay in the ledger, flagged, so the record is honest about reversals.

Every figure below links to its company timeline and public source. Attribution labels follow the methodology.