In a moment of corporate candor, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy informed employees that generative AI will “reduce our total corporate workforce” over the next few years. No dramatic layoffs (for now), but as AI agents take on more tasks, Amazon expects to shrink headcount through AI efficiency gains.

The company is already using over 1k AI tools. Two standout ones for customers include:

It’s all part of Amazon’s push to stay “the world’s largest startup,” using AI to move faster, stay lean, and keep raising the bar for customers.

If your CEO sent out a memo like this, what would you do differently? Would it change the skills you focus on, or how you think about the intrinsic value you bring to your role? It might be time to consider what AI could handle—so you can focus on what only you can do.

As Jassy put it: “Those who embrace this change, become conversant in AI, help us build and improve our AI capabilities internally and deliver for customers, will be well-positioned to have high impact and help us reinvent the company.”

If you’re reading the Neural Net, congrats—you’re already self-educating and staying ahead. Keep it up, and pretty soon your friends will be asking you what an AI agent is.

Wondering what new jobs AI will create? Read on to see what roles will define the next decade.

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Meta is bringing out the Brinks truck in its AI talent hunt, offering signing bonuses up to $100M to lure top recruits. Sam Altman says none of OpenAI’s best people bit, calling Meta’s approach a flashy copycat move that misses real innovation. Still, Zuck’s not hitting the brakes: after buying Scale AI, Meta poached top talent from DeepMind and even tried to acquire Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup for $32B—ultimately settling for headhunting its CEO when rebuffed.

ETH Zurich just served up a robot that can rally, literally. Meet ANYmal-D, a four-legged bot that plays badminton with humans using a stereo camera, a dynamic arm, and a unified AI controller trained via reinforcement learning. The big unlock? A whole-body control system that syncs the robot’s legs and arm in real time, something most AI systems can’t do well, allowing it to move and react like a single, agile unit. But let’s be honest, even AI superbots aren’t taking a set off the Chinese national team.

In China’s booming livestream shopping scene, influencers hawk everything from gadgets to snacks in real time, with viewers buying directly from the feed (think QVC meets TikTok). Now, Chinese tech giant Baidu and livestream star Luo Yonghao just had what one exec called a “DeepSeek moment”—using AI-generated avatars that mimicked their style to pull in $7.6 million in a single session. For livestreamers, it’s a wake-up call: bots don’t need breaks, salaries, or lighting crews, just training data and a Wi-Fi connection.

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Yes, AI will automate millions of jobs, but it’ll also create new ones. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs report, AI will displace 9 million roles by 2030, but 11 million new roles will emerge. The key questions: where, and what types of jobs?

A NYT article suggests that the most interesting new roles will be those that “bridge the gap” between AI’s powerful capabilities and these three areas where humans are essential: trust, integration, and taste. Here’s what these jobs could look like:

🛡 Trust
AI is powerful, but not infallible. That’s why we’ll need:

⚙️ Integration
Because getting AI to actually work inside a company is its own job:

🎨 Taste
The final category is the AI designer: someone who brings taste, vision, and creative direction to what AI produces. As generative tools flood us with endless options, the real advantage shifts to those who can curate with intent.

The future of AI could mean you no longer need to master every skill to accomplish almost anything. As one exec put it: “We’re all going to be C.E.O.s of a small army of A.I. agents.”

Sounds like it’s a good time to get curious and lean in!