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Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Amazon's consumer AI play (Alexa, shopping agents, internal tools) has consistently underperformed. This is a forced rationalization, not a pivot. For builders: Amazon is no longer a credible AWS-layer threat in consumer or enterprise AI. For investors: this opens space for faster, more focused competitors to own the agent and shopping stack. The void is real.