As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain?

By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused.

Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully cultivate talent.

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, October 21st. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

Shares of General Motors jumped this morning after the company reported strong sales and issued new guidance,

that included smaller losses from electric vehicles in the future. The move comes after GM said last week it would book a $1.6 billion charge to recognize underused EV and battery factory equipment to compensate for low demand after the

federal EV subsidy expired. There was a time when GM planned to assemble more than three times

as many EVs this year as it's currently on track to make. While the automaker

sold a record number of EVs this quarter, it's coming to grips with its overinvestment in the

technology. Meanwhile, the world's largest EV battery maker, contemporary AmperX technology, reported a

41% rise in third quarter profit, largely due to strong demand momentum. The Chinese battery

giant's net profit was the equivalent of around $2.6 billion, up from a year earlier, and

revenue rose 13%. The company is a key beneficiary of the EV sector's growth in China,

with its stock rising more than 40 percent so far this year.

And the huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators

moving forward. That's according to a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department's

trust-busting division. With the rising popularity of using power-hungry AI tools in everyday life,

tech giants are pouring billions of dollars into data centers to cope with the unrelenting demand.

And they're turning to power purchase agreements with energy firms to reduce permitting and grid connection risks.

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