

- Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalised lessons
- Amazon makes ‘fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch to be used in warehouses
- OpenAI backtrack their announcement for more dependence from its for-profit division and has confirmed that non-profit arm will retain control
- eBay announced the launch of its first consumer-facing shopping agent


- Viral online mini series from Raegan Lynch is back, but this time it is only available on TikTok
- Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari as searches in the browser fell for the first time last month
- ChatGPT have announced the launch of shopping features within search – but as advertisers, how can you prepare?


- China are hosting a sporting event where the contestants are all humanoid robots
- Elton John joins forces with Specsavers to highlight his fashion lead approach with his trademark glasses
- British startup Silence Speaks enables an AI-generated sign language avatar to effectively give the deaf and hard of hearing an interpreter in their pocket


- Snapchat and TikTok share platform highlights for 2025 so far