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Chair and chief executive of General Motors.
Jobs for the Future and the Burning Glass Institute expect 1.7 million US skilled-trade openings every year through 2035. Only 600,000 are net new jobs across the whole period, so AI data-center demand sits on top of a shortage driven mostly by replacing an aging workforce.
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GM chief executive Mary Barra still calls EVs the endgame, but the only date she will commit to is eyes-off highway driving on the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ. That single highway feature is the milestone investors can hold GM's strategy to.
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Phone projection gets a picture-in-picture window in GM's new truck software. The native features now have to hold a driver's attention while CarPlay is already on screen, and GM's product manager makes the case for bigger tap targets.
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Last week's Silverado and Sierra software reveal got read as GM restoring phone mirroring. The eleven electric nameplates that lost projection in 2023 are still Google built-in only, and the stack underneath them is why.
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Mary Barra told Fortune the trades may be more AI-proof than some office careers, and the 2.1 million-job shortage she cites was sized by a coalition of BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google, all buyers of that labour.
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