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ADP Bakes AI into Every Payroll Run

Sunday, November 9, 2025

AI Accounting Daily
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Today, we’re covering ADP quietly weaving AI into payroll and HR to speed runs and shift month-end toward validation, Oracle’s new AI agents automating close and reconciliations and surfacing forecasts at no extra cost, an AI payroll hold that delayed paychecks and spotlights the need for human overrides, and Big Tech’s record AI debt spree funding data centers, GPUs, and power contracts that could reshape your cloud costs. We’ll unpack what to trust, where to tighten controls, and how these shifts could hit your close calendar and 2025 budget.

Latest in Accounting AI

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ADP Embeds AI To Automate Payroll

ADP is tucking AI into payroll and HR, not bolting it on. Across payroll, time & attendance, talent, benefits, and compliance, it nudges decisions and automates steps. Accountants see faster payroll runs and cleaner intake, but month‑end close shifts toward validating what the model did.
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Oracle Adds AI Agents To Automate Close

Oracle is embedding AI agents in Fusion Cloud finance workflows to automate parts of month-end close and reconciliations and to surface forecasts. Built with AI Agent Studio on OCI, they’re natively integrated at no added cost — but how far will controllers trust straight‑through postings?
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AI Payroll System Withholds Pay Until Next Month

An AI payroll tool withheld an employee’s check until the following month after an automated decision. That pushes exception handling from HR to payroll runs—a sensitive shift for cash‑strapped staff. Firms may rethink approval thresholds and human override in payroll and month‑end close.
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Updates in AI

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Tech Giants Issue Record Debt For AI

Big Tech is borrowing at record levels to feed the AI build‑out, shifting cash priorities toward capacity over buybacks. Fresh debt is flowing into data centers, Nvidia H100‑class GPUs, and long‑term power contracts, with capex hitting new highs over the past quarter. Cheaper money helps for now, but rising interest and power constraints could decide who scales — and who rents.
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OpenAI Seeks Chips Tax Credit For Data Centers

OpenAI is lobbying to stretch the Chips Act’s 35% AMIC beyond chip fabs to grid gear, AI servers, and data centers. An Oct. 27 letter also seeks faster permitting and a strategic reserve of copper, aluminum, and rare earths, while its CFO floated a backstop for an infrastructure loan. If credits migrate upstream and power bottlenecks ease, buildouts could accelerate — but debates over who pays for energy will too.
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Tech Firms Accelerate Layoffs Amid AI Hype

Tech layoffs are surging again, and the timing stings for a decade’s worth of new CS grads. Challenger, Gray & Christmas counted 33,281 tech jobs cut in October, up from 5,639 in September, with 141,159 planned this year versus 120,470 by this point in 2024—blamed on AI narratives, overhiring, and a weak economy. Rate cuts could nudge hiring, yet 2025’s seasonal pipelines look thin.
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