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—Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple

No More Silent Cuts: Congress Wants the Data

You’ve heard the anecdotes. Entry-level analysts axed. Call center crews thinned. Driver jobs drying up like puddles in the Sahara. But what’s the actual headcount on AI's impact?

Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley just introduced a bipartisan bill that aims to put numbers where the narratives are. The AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act would make companies divulge how AI is changing their workforce every single quarter.

Tracking the Turnover

If passed, the bill would require publicly traded companies, federal agencies, and certain private firms to submit quarterly disclosures to the Department of Labor. These reports would need to include:

• Layoffs tied directly to AI-based automation

• Hires made as a result of AI deployment

• Roles intentionally left vacant due to AI integration

• AI-driven retraining programs

• Any other workforce impacts tied to AI, as determined by the Secretary of Labor

The Department of Labor would be responsible for compiling and publishing the data through the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Reports would be issued quarterly, with additional net-impact analyses every six months.

Sounding the Alarm

Earlier this year, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that current AI tools could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. He also projected unemployment rates could climb as high as 20%.

Amazon, UPS, and Target have recently announced more than 60K job cuts. AI was mentioned among several contributing factors, along with cost controls and shifting business priorities. This bill would create a mechanism for separating assumption from accountability.

What Dealers Should Watch

Auto retail is not explicitly named in the legislation, but the industry won’t be insulated. These shifts affect dealership workflows directly, from call centers to service schedulers. If the rule-making process includes large private companies, major dealer groups could eventually be subject to these reporting requirements.

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Nano Banana 2 (GEMPIX 2):
Turn Prompts Into Pro-Grade Visuals

Google’s Nano Banana 2, built on the Gemini 3 Pro Image model, is about to make high-end image creation as easy as typing a sentence. Think 4K-ready visuals, precise text rendering, and location-aware scenes—all generated in seconds.

Instantly produce scroll-stopping graphics for new arrivals, trade-in promos, or seasonal campaigns. Update vehicle shots, swap backgrounds, or tweak lighting without calling your photographer or designer. Your next Facebook ad could start as a text prompt.

Enjoy making your own flip-phone pictures of Bigfoot driving your top seller through the showroom window like never before.

Gemini Creative Suite:
Marketing, Unified

Paired with Gemini’s Creative Suite, Nano Banana 2 lets you write, design, and publish—all in one workflow. Plan your post, generate matching visuals, and drop it straight into a campaign, no app-hopping required.

Shrink creative turnaround from days to minutes. One platform, one vision—your store’s story told faster and sharper than ever.

Tools increase what one person can do, and if AI keeps advancing, we won’t even need another person around to argue anymore.

Try them out and tell us what happens when AI hits your showroom floor. Tag @AutoIndustry.AI on LinkedIn and share your wins!

Most brands treat creative like a slot machine. Pull the lever, hope something hits. But every high-performing ad is already full of clues—not just about what worked, but why it worked.

This prompt turns your back catalog into a strategic asset. You’ll surface the patterns, emotional angles, and audience cues that consistently drive performance, then use that data to inform what comes next.

AI vs. Google isn’t a debate anymore. It’s already reshaping how customers search, shop, and buy.

Join Michael Cirillo and Marcus Sheridan, world-renowned communication expert and bestselling author of “They Ask, You Answer” and “Endless Customers,” for a high-impact conversation about what this shift means for dealerships.

Marcus shares insights from nearly 3,000 professionals who are now using ChatGPT more often than Google, and explains what that means for SEO, content, lead generation, and trust in the modern retail experience.

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