According to Sawyer Merritt on Twitter, General Motors is set to lay off over 1,700 employees at its Michigan and Ohio facilities, directly citing a slowdown in the electric vehicle (EV) market as the cause (source: CNBC, 2025-10-29). For the AI industry, this trend points to evolving opportunities: as traditional EV manufacturing faces headwinds, automotive companies are likely to double down on AI-driven automation and predictive analytics to reduce operational costs and optimize production. This could accelerate the adoption of AI-powered supply chain management, robotics, and machine learning solutions within automotive plants, creating new business opportunities for AI solution providers targeting the automotive sector. The shift also highlights increasing demand for AI-based market forecasting tools as manufacturers look to adapt to rapidly changing consumer demand in the EV space (source: CNBC, 2025-10-29).