GM is firing 600 IT workers and hiring AI engineers. It calls it transformation, not termination.

General Motors is laying off 500 to 600 IT workers and hiring AI-native engineers in a skills swap that reflects the automaker’s retreat from EVs and robotaxis and its pivot toward software-defined vehicles powered by Google Gemini and Nvidia Drive Thor.

General Motors is laying off 500 to 600 salaried IT workers and replacing them with engineers who know how to build AI systems. The cuts, centred in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, represent more than 10 per cent of GM’s IT department. The company is not reducing headcount for cost savings. It is executing what amounts to a skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and hiring data engineers, prompt specialists, and AI-native developers in their place. GM shares fell four per cent after the announcement.

The restructuring is narrow. It targets one department in a company that employs roughly 163,000 people. But ...