- September 2025: US imposes additional 100k USD per visa as a condition to eligibility. (previous was 5k - 20k USD)

- October 2025: Amazon cuts 14k jobs

- December 2025: Amazon announces additional 35b USD investment to India (total 75b USB by 2030); promises to create ~1m jobs there

- December 2025: Random H1B lottery is dismantled, giving preference to higher company salary spending e.g. the more salary H1B applicant would receive, the better the chances

- January 2026: Amazon cuts 16k additional jobs (30k jobs cut in total)

You really don't have to be a detective to figure out that this has nothing to do with AI.