What changed for AI at work in October 2025? We tracked 14 company moves on AI and robots at work in October 2025: 7 rollouts, 2 pilots, 1 pullback, 4 plans or forecasts. That's the same as 14 in September 2025. Of these, 3 involved robots rather than software alone. The jobs named most were in management, business and finance and healthcare practitioners.
What changed on the clocks? 9 of these moves were in real use (rollouts and pilots) and 4 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
- Accountants and Auditors2 moves this month · 2h 42m of the shift touched
- General and Operations Managers1 move this month · 1h 14m of the shift touched
- Registered Nurses1 move this month · 53m 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
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers1 move this month · 1h 53m of the shift touched
- Pharmacy Technicians1 move this month · 1h 35m of the shift touched
- Marketing Managers1 move this month · 3h 44m of the shift touched
Every move, newest first
- Chegg cuts 45% of staff, citing AI and lost Google traffic
Chegg cut 388 roles, about 45% of its workforce. It cited the new realities of AI and reduced traffic from Google.
- Amazon cuts about 14,000 corporate jobs to reduce layers
Amazon said it would cut about 14,000 corporate jobs to reduce layers and bureaucracy, and the cuts could eventually exceed 30,000. HR chief Beth Galetti called AI the most transformative technology since the Internet.
TechRepublic · General and Operations Managers, First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
- Diligent unveils Moxi 2.0 hospital delivery robot, now in 25+ hospitals
Diligent said its Moxi robots work in more than 25 U.S. hospitals, delivering medications and lab samples for nurses and pharmacy staff, with over 1.25 million deliveries so far. It aims to double its hospital footprint each year.
- PwC hopes to automate the full audit with AI during 2026
PwC U.S. assurance transformation leader Shawn Panson said the firm hopes to have AI tools covering every audit stage, from planning to financial statement tie-out, in calendar 2026. He said PwC is hiring engineers into assurance and wants entry-level accountants with data or computer science skills.
- Mondelez invests over $40 million in a generative AI marketing tool
Mondelez is investing more than $40 million in a generative AI tool built with Publicis and Accenture, aiming to cut production costs by 30% to 50%. Starting in November it will update Oreo product pages on Amazon and Walmart in the US.
- Internal Amazon documents plan robots for 75% of operations
According to documents reported by The New York Times, Amazon expects to avoid hiring more than 160,000 U.S. workers by 2027 and 600,000 by 2033. Amazon says the documents are incomplete and don't represent its hiring strategy.
Business Standard, citing The New York Times · Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand, Stockers and Order Fillers
- eXp Realty launches Mira, an AI business assistant for its agents
eXp launched Mira, an AI assistant agents can use by voice or text in English, French and Spanish. It lets agents check cap status, track revenue share and view payouts.
Real Estate News · Real Estate Sales Agents, Real Estate Brokers
- Deloitte refunds part of a government fee over AI-made report errors
Deloitte refunded over A$97,000 of a roughly A$440,000 contract with Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. The report contained a fabricated court quote and references to nonexistent research.
- FleetWorks raises $17 million for an always-on AI truck dispatcher
FleetWorks raised $17 million led by First Round Capital for its AI dispatcher. Less than six months after launch it had onboarded over 10,000 carriers and partnered with more than 15 of the top 100 U.S. freight brokers.
- Logitech CEO says AI agents sit in almost every meeting
CEO Hanneke Faber said Logitech uses AI agents such as Microsoft Copilot in almost every meeting for summaries, notes and ideas, and that she would consider putting an AI on her board.
- Tumble tests a folding robot in its San Francisco laundry
Laundry service Tumble installed Weave Robotics' Isaac robot in its North Beach laundry room, where it folded about 15% of one customer order. The founder said there is no timeline but hopes to reach 50%.
The San Francisco Standard · Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
- JPMorgan's LLM Suite reaches about 250,000 employees
About 250,000 JPMorgan employees have access to LLM Suite and roughly half use it daily. In a demo it produced a five-page investment banking deck in about 30 seconds, work junior bankers previously needed hours for.
- Colorado runs driverless crash trucks behind highway crews
CDOT has three self-driving truck-mounted attenuators in use in Limon, Pueblo and southwest Colorado, mainly on striping projects. It plans to expand statewide and to mowing, pothole patching and sweeping.
- Peloton launches Peloton IQ AI coaching with form tracking
Peloton unveiled Peloton IQ, a computer vision system that gives AI feedback on exercise form and reps, alongside price increases. CEO Peter Stern said services will stay centered on human instructors.