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GM Lays Off 500-600 IT Workers Worldwide
General Motors cut more than 10% of its Information Technology department as part of a skills shift toward artificial intelligence capabilities. The automaker confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch while stating it continues to hire for AI-native development, data engineering and other specialized roles. The move follows executive departures and prior cuts in its software workforce.
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General Motors has laid off between 500 and 600 IT workers worldwide. The company confirmed the cuts to TechCrunch after Bloomberg News first reported them. According to a person familiar with the layoffs, these are not all permanent headcount reductions.
The same person told TechCrunch that GM is still hiring people for roles in its IT department. The most sought-after capabilities are AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, agent and model development, prompt engineering, and new AI workflows.
GM has laid off white-collar employees in several departments over the past 18 months as it focuses resources on high-priority initiatives including AI.
In August 2024 the company cut about 1,000 software workers. The software workforce has undergone significant change since Sterling Anderson was hired in May 2025 as chief product officer. Anderson is co-founder of the autonomous trucking startup Aurora.
Last November three top executives left GM’s software team as Anderson pushed to consolidate the company’s disparate technology businesses into one organization. Baris Cetinok, senior vice president of software and services product management, left GM in November 2025. Dave Richardson, senior vice president of software and services engineering, also left that month.
Barak Turovsky left GM in November 2025 after spending nine months as the company’s chief AI officer. GM has since moved to fill gaps with new AI-focused hires. The company hired Behrad Toghi in October as AI lead. Toghi previously worked at Apple. GM also brought on Rashed Haq as vice president of autonomous vehicles; Haq spent five years at Cruise as its head of AI and robotics.
