Amazon cuts jobs in its AGI unit

Amazon has laid off some employees in its artificial general intelligence (AGI) unit. The AGI unit recently released the Nova AI models and also includes teams working on silicon and quantum computing. The exact number of affected jobs was not disclosed.
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