What changed for AI at work in December 2025? We tracked 4 company moves on AI and robots at work in December 2025: 3 rollouts, 1 pilot. That's down from 14 in November 2025. Of these, 2 involved robots rather than software alone. The jobs named most were in food service, education and protective services.
What changed on the clocks? 4 of these moves were in real use (rollouts and pilots) and 0 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
- Restaurant Cooks1 move this month · 7m of the shift touched
- Elementary School Teachers1 move this month · 1h 29m of the shift touched
- Food Preparation Workers1 move this month · 49m of the shift touched
- Driver/Sales Workers1 move this month · 4h 18m of the shift touched
- Correctional Officers and Jailers1 move this month · 5m of the shift touched
- Couriers and Messengers1 move this month · 5h 6m of the shift touched
Every move, newest first
- Sweetgreen sells Spyce to Wonder and keeps its robot Infinite Kitchen
Sweetgreen sold Spyce, the maker of its automated Infinite Kitchen, to Wonder and expects to keep using the system under a long-term supply agreement. Infinite Kitchen runs in more than 20 of Sweetgreen's more than 280 locations.
- Alpha School, which uses AI apps instead of teachers, expands in Bay Area
Alpha School has no teachers; students learn through AI-powered apps for two hours a day, with adults acting as mentors. The founder says there are 13 campuses nationwide, and the school plans new Palo Alto and East Bay sites.
- Serve Robotics has deployed more than 2,000 sidewalk delivery robots
Serve said it has deployed more than 2,000 sidewalk delivery robots in U.S. cities including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami and Chicago. It works with Uber Eats, DoorDash and 7-Eleven and has completed more than 100,000 deliveries.
The Robot Report · Couriers and Messengers, Driver/Sales Workers
- Securus pilots AI that scans inmate calls for planned crimes
Securus is piloting an AI model that scans inmates' calls, texts and emails and flags sections for human reviewers. One model was trained on seven years of calls from the Texas prison system.