GM’s AI Workforce Shift, Real-Time AI Conversations, and Long-Horizon Agents | UpNext AI – May 12, 2026
General Motors is reportedly restructuring its IT organization around AI-native roles, laying off hundreds of employees while continuing to hire for AI development, data engineering, cloud systems, and agent workflows. The move is one of the clearest examples yet of enterprise AI shifting from experimentation into organizational redesign and workforce strategy.
Meanwhile, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab says it’s building “interaction models” capable of listening while speaking in real time. The company claims response latency around 0.40 seconds—closer to natural human conversation than…
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