"Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors" In order to rehire someone they must laid off or fired? You don't rehire new employees?

I think most of them were losses by attrition. Where they don't replace lost employees. That's usually the preferred method of downsizing if you can get away with it.

What is the point of a comment like this?

This article may not mention anything but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Go search "Ford Layoffs 2025" and see for your self

It's not up for debate whether they did or didn't lay people off recently. They unambiguously did.