Businesswire

With a growing labor shortage and the need to strengthen domestic manufacturing, US workers are showing overwhelming support for the adoption of robotics and automation technologies in factories. According to the automatica Trend Index 2025, nearly 70% of US employees believe robots help manufacturers tackle workforce shortages and stay competitive, while two-thirds see robotics as a critical factor in reshoring industrial production.

New Relic, the intelligent observability company, has released its first-ever AI Unwrapped: 2025 AI Impact Report, offering deep insight into how 85,000 customers are shaping the AI landscape through their development decisions. The report, based on a full year of aggregated and anonymized usage data, reveals that OpenAI’s ChatGPT accounts for over 86% of all LLM tokens processed, with developers increasingly shifting to the latest models—especially ChatGPT-4o and 4o mini.

Thread AI, a pioneer in composable AI infrastructure, has secured $20 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft, with support from major investors including Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Meritech Capital, and Homebrew. Co-founded by former Palantir executives Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah, Thread AI is transforming how enterprises design and deploy scalable, secure, and adaptable AI-powered workflows through its platform, Lemma.