What changed for AI at work in July 2025? We tracked 13 company moves on AI and robots at work in July 2025: 8 rollouts, 3 pilots, 1 pullback, 1 plan or forecast. That's up from 12 in June 2025. Of these, 3 involved robots rather than software alone. The jobs named most were in construction, transportation and warehouse and business and finance.
What changed on the clocks? 11 of these moves were in real use (rollouts and pilots) and 1 were announcements, plans or forecasts, with 1 pulling back. 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
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers2 moves this month · 5h 44m of the shift touched
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand1 move this month · 4h 31m of the shift touched
- Stockers and Order Fillers1 move this month · 1h 17m of the shift touched
- Lawyers1 move this month · 1h 36m of the shift touched
- Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents1 move this month · 3h 43m of the shift touched
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators1 move this month · 5h 28m of the shift touched
- Compliance Officers1 move this month · 4h 10m of the shift touched
- Counter and Rental Clerks1 move this month · 1h 30m of the shift touched
Every move, newest first
- PCI uses Okibo robots for drywall finishing at Netflix House project
Specialty contractor PCI used Okibo's painting and drywall finishing robots at the 100,000-square-foot Netflix House in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The robots delivered up to 5x productivity on Level 4 and 5 sanding, and the firms planned a data center project next.
Engineering.com · Painters, Construction and Maintenance, Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Aurora starts driverless trucking at night and opens a Phoenix terminal
Aurora began driverless commercial trips at night on its Dallas to Houston lane and opened a Phoenix terminal for its Fort Worth to Phoenix lane, hauling freight for Hirschbach and Werner. It reported more than 20,000 driverless miles by the end of June 2025.
- Virginia Tech uses AI to check admission essay scores
Virginia Tech, which gets about 55,000 applications a year, will use AI to confirm reviewer essay scores instead of a second human reader. If AI and the reviewer differ by two points on a 12-point scale, another person reviews the essay.
- Judge removes Butler Snow lawyers over fake ChatGPT citations
U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco reprimanded three Butler Snow attorneys and removed them from an Alabama prison case. One attorney used ChatGPT to generate case citations and did not verify them.
- Sixt uses AI Car Gate scanners to check rentals at pickup and return
Sixt uses its Car Gate system to scan vehicles at pickup and return, and says staff review flags before claims. Two customers were billed for damage shown in pickup scan photos, and Sixt dropped both claims.
- Morgan Stanley extends AI assistant and notetaker across wealth division
Morgan Stanley made its AI @ Morgan Stanley Assistant and Debrief notetaker available to employees across its wealth management division, with Debrief now on mobile for meetings outside the office.
InvestmentNews · Personal Financial Advisors, Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
- Nasdaq Verafin launches AI digital workers for AML compliance
Nasdaq Verafin launched AI agents that handle sanctions screening alerts and enhanced due diligence reviews. It says its Digital Sanctions Analyst cuts a bank's alert review workload by more than 80% based on initial results.
- Los Angeles beta tests Archistar AI plan check for fire rebuilds
Los Angeles began beta testing Archistar's eCheck AI tool, which checks building plans against local building and zoning rules before submission. Use is optional for people rebuilding single-family homes after the Palisades Fire.
- Google's Big Sleep AI agent finds SQLite flaw before attackers use it
Google said its Big Sleep AI agent isolated CVE-2025-6965, a critical SQLite flaw known only to threat actors. Google called it the first time an AI agent directly foiled an exploit attempt in the wild.
- Mercedes-Benz Beijing body and paint center gets AI spray painting robot
Lianhe Sowell delivered an AI-guided spray painting robot to the Mercedes-Benz Body & Paint Center in Beijing. Sowell says it improves spraying efficiency by more than 30% and cuts paint use by more than 20%.
Collision Repair Magazine · Automotive Body and Related Repairers, Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Caterpillar autonomous trucks haul one million tons at Bull Run Quarry
Caterpillar and Luck Stone said autonomous Cat 777 trucks have hauled one million tons at Bull Run Quarry in Virginia, the first aggregates site to use them. The companies are exploring expansion to more sites.
Caterpillar · Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers, Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Penske's Catalyst AI watches 200,000 trucks for coming breakdowns
Penske's Catalyst AI analyzes real-time data on more than 200,000 trucks and flags patterns that suggest imminent major maintenance issues. Penske collects 300 million data points a day.
Business Insider via AOL · Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
- Amazon reaches 1 million warehouse robots
Amazon said it now has 1 million robots in its warehouses and that 75% of its global deliveries are assisted by robots in some way. It also released DeepFleet, an AI model it says will make the robot fleet 10% faster.
TechCrunch · Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand, Stockers and Order Fillers