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In today’s Daily Report:
📦 Amazon Lays Off 16,000 Corporate Workers
🔍 Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome
📍AI Tier Tracker
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
AMAZON
📦 Amazon Lays Off 16,000 Corporate Workers
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Amazon reportedly axed another 16,000 corporate workers as part of a strategic shift to “reduce layers, increase ownership, and remove bureaucracy.”
Key Details:
In October 2025, Amazon cut about 14,000 corporate jobs, which represented about 4% of the online retail giant’s corporate workforce. The layoffs were part of a calculated pivot to stay nimble and less bureaucratic, allowing Amazon to reallocate capital toward “our biggest bets.”
Amazon’s investing heavily in GenAI applications, including:
Rufus: a Personal Shopping Assistant that helps you discover the best products to meet your needs.
Alexa+: A Personal Voice Assistant that proactively books flights, purchases tickets, and manages subscriptions.
Amazon Q: A Personal Business Assistant that connects to a company’s internal data to automate an employee’s daily tasks.
Why It’s Important:
Amazon believes AI Agents offer a way to avoid this phenomenon by breaking the “Human-in-the-Loop” bottleneck. AI Agents can handle complex business processes by autonomously analyzing, executing, and fulfilling on an employee’s behalf.
🔍 Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome
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Google announced updates to “Gemini in Chrome,” ushering in a new era of AI-powered browsing that seamlessly incorporates Gemini directly into how you explore the internet.
Key Details:
🔴 Auto Browse: Gemini can now autonomously click, type, and scroll to fill out forms, purchase products, or book reservations on your behalf.
🟠 Gemini Side Panel: Gemini can now assist you, no matter what tab you’re in, to synthesize lengthy articles or compare product reviews.
🟡 Personal Intelligence: Gemini can now retain and recall relevant information from any website you’ve visited whenever you need it.
🟢 Connected Apps: Gemini can now integrate directly into Gmail, Calendar, and Maps to pinpoint the perfect time for whatever’s next.
🔵 Nano Banana Web: Gemini can now customize the shape, size, or color of any image to adjust lighting, enhance texture, or swap subjects.
Why It’s Important:
For over two decades, we’ve turned to search engines like Google Search, typed in a search query, and received a list of blue links. Now, we’re experiencing a digital departure from asking, “What can I search for?” to asking, “What can my browser do for me?”
A person’s average attention span has shrunk to 8.25 seconds, a decline from about 12 seconds in 2000. Gen Z strongly favors instant gratification through quick access to immediate answers. To reflect this reality, Google Chrome has evolved into an “Agentic Engine” that does the reading for you.
THE STOCK MARKET
📍AI Tier Tracker
TIER 0: ENERGY GE Vernova, Inc. |
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TIER 1: SILICON Marvell Technology, Inc. |
TIER 2: DATA CENTERS Digital Realty Trust, Inc. |
TIER 3: AI MODELS Tencent Holdings Ltd., ADR |
TIER 4: SOFTWARE STACK Symbotic Inc. |
TIER 5: AI AGENTS Twilio Inc. |
🔔CLOSING BELL: As of 1/28/2026 market close.
💡STOCK SPOTLIGHT: Each tier showcases a new stock every day.
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🗣️RambleFix turns spoken words into structured writing.
🛒Engain gets your brand mentioned on Reddit organically.
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🥪BRIEF BITES
Google premiered “Dear Upstairs Neighbors,” an AI-assisted animated short film showcasing how AI can help storyboard artists streamline character design.
Luma AI released “Ray3.14,” an upgraded video generation model that creates 1080p cinematic masterpieces 4x faster and 3x cheaper with improved motion.
NVIDIA faces “Congressional Scrutiny,” for providing extensive technical support to Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, later weaponized by the Chinese military.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased “2026 Agentic Commerce,” aiming to help people browse, book, and buy products and services on Instagram and Facebook.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Salesforce (New York, NY): Solution Engineer Intern, Summer 2026
Databricks (Amsterdam, NL): Software Engineer, Data AI, Entry-Level
Lyft (San Francisco, CA): Data Scientist, Algorithms, Lyft Ads, Mid-Level
OpenAI (Dublin, IE): AI Success Manager, Post-Sales AI, Senior-Level
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