Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has returned to the Amazon doorbell business and is reinstating its crime-fighting mission while emphasizing AI efficiency

What Happened: The new policy was announced by Jamie Siminoff, the founder of Ring, on Wednesday, according to a Fortune report. It mandates that all promotion applications within Amazon’s RBKS organization must now include details on how AI is utilized in their roles.

I think that A.I. and generative A.I. specifically is the most transformative technology of our lifetime, which is saying a lot, given that we have had the Internet,” he told CNBC.

Amazon confirmed layoffs in its cloud computing unit, AWS, and employees are trying to determine which teams were affected.

Amazon lays off hundreds in its AWS division, citing AI-driven changes and broader efficiency efforts across internal cloud and training teams.

Amazon’s smart home business will now require employees seeking promotions to prove AI use and ask managers to demonstrate better efficiency using the technology in a new policy announced by Ring founder and Amazon division head Jamie Siminoff.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy anticipates generative artificial intelligence will reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years.

Amazon has laid off hundreds of employees in its AWS cloud division as part of a broader restructuring effort driven by the growing adoption of generative AI and CEO Andy Jassy's push to streamline operations.

Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy's predictions that automation would cost jobs at the company have proven accurate at Amazon Web Services.