“We look at all the things that could impact consumers and customers,” he said Thursday in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC. “It’s hard to know what’s really going to happen. There’s a lot of flux right now.”
Asked if he was talking to the Trump administration about tariffs, he said Amazon had shared its concerns and that US officials were aware of them.
Jassy also released his annual letter to shareholders, in which he said Amazon had to operate like the “world’s largest start-up” as it worked to meet demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and cut bureaucracy in its ranks.
Amazon, like most of the largest technology companies, has bet heavily on AI, committing much of its US$100 billion in planned capital expenditures this year to AI-related projects.
