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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI ...
General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for some with AI-focused backgrounds. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it had conducted layoffs; they were first reported by Bloomberg News. In an emailed statement, the automaker framed the layoffs as means to prepare it for the future, without providing specifics. “GM is transforming its Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future,” the company said. These layoffs are not all permanent headcount reductions. A person familiar with the layoffs told TechCrunch that the company is still hiring people for roles in its IT department, but for different skills. The most sought-after capabilities are AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development, prompt engineering, and new AI workflows. In practical terms, GM is looking for people who know how to build with AI from the ground up — designing the systems, training the models, and engineering the pipelines — not just use AI as a productivity tool. GM has laid off white-collar employees in several departments over the past 18 months, as it focuses its resources on high-priority initiatives, including AI. In August 2024, for example, the company cut about 1,000 software workers. The software workforce has undergone significant change since Sterling Anderson — co-founder of the autonomous trucking startup Aurora and a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry — was hired in May 2025 as chief product officer. Last November, three top executives left the company’s software team as Anderson pushed to consolidate GM’s disparate technology businesses into one organization: Baris Cetinok, senior vice president of software and services product management, Dave Richardson, senior vice president of software and services engineering, and Barak Turovsky, a former VP at Cisco who spent just nine months as GM’s chief AI officer. GM has since moved to fill the gap with new AI-focused hires. It hired Behrad Toghi, who previously worked at Apple, in October as AI lead. The company also brought on Rashed Haq as its vice president of autonomous vehicles. Haq spent five years at Cruise — the self-driving vehicle company acquired and later shuttered by GM — as its head of AI and robotics. For the industry, GM's restructuring is a signal ...
GM cutting up to 600 white-collar jobs, even as it seeks tech talent
Updated May 11, 2026, 5:11 p.m. ETGeneral Motors Co. is cutting several hundred information technology jobs globally as it focuses on artificial intelligence and other future-forward skillsets, potentially impacting employment levels in southeast Michigan.About 500 to 600 employees will be laid off, according to a source familiar with the matter, including some at the company's Warren hub. GM is cutting tech jobs that are no longer needed, according to the source, but plans on hiring workers adept in AI and future technologies expected to power next-gen product development."GM is transforming its Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future," according to a statement from the Detroit automaker. "As part of that work, we have made the difficult decision to eliminate certain roles globally." GM declined to disclose the locations of the job cuts.GM's job cuts are the second significant layoff by a major Michigan employer in recent days. On Friday, Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank announced more than 500 layoffs at its Farmington Hills office, the former Comerica Bank campus it acquired in a merger earlier this year."The aggregate numbers aren't enough to affect the Michigan economy," said Patrick Anderson, CEO of Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group. "But GM is a flagship employer here, and they're making a decision that a lot of companies in the automobile industry and other sectors are also considering. It’s definitely a warning sign for a lot of Michigan employers."Anderson said the auto industry "has been taking a lashing" because of tariffs, low-cost Chinese vehicles and now "the cost pressures that consumers are facing all across the board, making their discretionary purchase of automobiles a harder sell.""Artificial intelligence and, in particular, the tremendous growth of coding agents, is probably also a factor," he said. The most recent round of job cuts are part of a continuing trend inside the automaker to both staff to meet market demand and to match tech skills to tech needs of the future.In late March, GM temporarily laid off 1,300 workers at its Factory Zero electric vehicle plant on the Detroit-Hamtramck border amid slow sales of battery-powered models. Last October, GM laid off more than 200 employees, mostly at its Warren Technical Center, as well as another roughly 325 workers as it began shuttering its Georgia IT Innovation Center.At the time, GM said some of the roughly 575 remaining Georgia employe...
GM lays off 500-600 salaried IT workers to cut costs - CNBC
General Motors is laying off hundreds of salaried employees in its information technology operations.
Employers prize AI skills but lag in offering training - MSN
AI literacy is now a top hiring priority, with most employers favoring candidates with AI skills over those with more experience. However, companies often fail to provide adequate training ...
