What changed for AI at work in April 2025? We tracked 8 company moves on AI and robots at work in April 2025: 3 rollouts, 2 pilots, 3 plans or forecasts. That's up from 5 in March 2025. Of these, 1 involved robots rather than software alone. The jobs named most were in arts, media and sports, computers and math and food service.
What changed on the clocks? 5 of these moves were in real use (rollouts and pilots) and 3 were announcements, plans or forecasts. None of them moved a job's clock: company news is logged here, but clocks only change when new research data comes out (see each job's Clock history).
Each move is checked against its source before it goes on the site. Stages describe what a company actually did, from announcements to pilots, rollouts and pullbacks. The jobs below link to their time cards, which show how much of a typical shift AI and robots touch.
Jobs in the news this month
- Software Developers2 moves this month · 3h 20m of the shift touched
- Interpreters and Translators2 moves this month · 4h 47m of the shift touched
- Writers and Authors2 moves this month · 2h 36m of the shift touched
- Accountants and Auditors1 move this month · 2h 42m of the shift touched
- Restaurant Cooks1 move this month · 7m of the shift touched
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks1 move this month · 1h 58m of the shift touched
- Food Preparation Workers1 move this month · 49m of the shift touched
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers1 move this month · 24m of the shift touched
Every move, newest first
- Duolingo launches 148 new language courses built with generative AI
Duolingo said it used generative AI, shared content systems and internal tooling to build and launch 148 new courses in under a year, more than doubling its offering. CEO Luis von Ahn said its first 100 courses took about 12 years to develop.
Duolingo · Instructional Coordinators, Interpreters and Translators, Writers and Authors
- Zuckerberg predicts AI will write most of Meta's code within 18 months
In an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Mark Zuckerberg predicted AI will write most of the code for Meta's AI efforts within roughly 18 months.
- Microsoft says 20% to 30% of its code is written by AI
CEO Satya Nadella said 20% to 30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was written by software. The week before, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI generates more than 30% of Google's code.
- Harvest CROO strawberry robot matches human pace in field trials
Harvest CROO, co-founded by Wish Farms owner Gary Wishnatzki, said field trials reached performance on par with human harvesting in a commercial operation. The company still needs funding before a commercial rollout.
Specialty Crop Grower · Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- BMW pilots AI that plans final quality checks for each car at Regensburg
BMW's Regensburg plant is piloting GenAI4Q, an AI tool that builds an individual inspection catalogue for each vehicle in final assembly inspection. The plant builds about 1,400 vehicles a day.
BMW Group PressClub · Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- KPMG builds AI agents into its global audit platform
KPMG is adding AI agents to its global audit platform for more than 95,000 auditors. The agents target routine tasks such as expense reviews and searching for unrecorded liabilities.
Bloomberg Tax · Accountants and Auditors, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
- Sweetgreen plans to add 25 more automated Infinite Kitchens in 2025
Sweetgreen expects to add 25 more Infinite Kitchens by the end of 2025, after ending 2024 with 12. It says the automated stores deliver at least 7 percentage points in labor savings versus similar stores.
- Duolingo says it will stop using contractors for work AI can handle
In an AI-first memo in late April 2025, CEO Luis von Ahn said Duolingo would "gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle."
Entrepreneur · Interpreters and Translators, Writers and Authors