The result “There’s nothing to see here” hits home for the Car Group’s skeptics

The result “There’s nothing to see here” hits home for the Car Group’s skeptics

By Anthony Macdonald
Publication Date: 2026-02-09 07:27:00

In the eye of the AI ​​storm and sinking like a stone, the new boss of $10 billion car sales owner Car Group went into earnings day ready to upend the history of artificial intelligence.

William Elliott gave slides on how Car Group uses AI, how it plans to use it, how it makes the company and its services more valuable (not less), and unveiled a surprising new global AI hub with an appropriately hip name (CG/Lab) that would develop agent AI capabilities that could be rolled out across Car Group’s various business units worldwide. He threw everything at it and needed most of it to stick.

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