GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills - TechCrunch

General Motors laid off roughly 600 salaried IT employees—more than 10% of its IT organization—in a deliberate skills swap to make room for workers with stronger AI and cloud capabilities. New hiring priorities include AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, agent and model development, prompt engineering and new AI workflows. The move is consistent with earlier reporting that GM was trimming hundreds of IT roles as it reevaluated workforce needs, though the company emphasizes shifting headcount toward strategic AI and data capabilities rather than only cutting costs.