This week Amazon debuted a new warehouse robot that has a sense of "touch," but the company also promised its new bot will not replace human warehouse workers. On Monday, at Amazon's Delivering the Future event in Dortmund, Germany, the retail giant introduced the world to Vulcan, a robot designed to sort, pick up, and place objects in storage compartments with the finesse and dexterity of human hands. Instead, the robot's "end of arm tooling" looks like a "ruler stuck onto a hair straightener," as Amazon describes it. The Vulcan warehouse robot is also loaded with cameras and feedback sensors to process when it makes contact with items and how much force to apply to prevent damage. In its warehouses, Amazon's inventory is stored in soft fabric compartments of about one square foot in size.

Since AI first surged in popularity, the question for enterprises has gone from "should we implement it?" Yet, CEOs aren't sure that business leaders have what it takes to lead the charge. On Tuesday, the research firm Gartner released the results of the Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey of 456 CEOs and other senior business executives worldwide. The survey found that only 44% of chief information officers (CIOs) were considered "AI-savvy" by CEOs. Also: ServiceNow and Nvidia's new reasoning AI model raises the bar for enterprise AI agents Furthermore, CEOs perceived even chief information security officers (CISOs) and chief data officers (CDOs) as lacking AI savviness despite their inherently technology-savvy roles.

A month after rolling out new AI tools that make selling easier than ever, eBay is introducing an AI tool for buyers. Shopping without knowing exactly what you want can be a little overwhelming, but a new AI tool from the world's most popular auction site aims to help. Also: I've sold on eBay for 25 years, and this new AI-powered listing tool is a game-changer Starting today, eBay's AI shopping agent will help buyers find what they're looking for -- even if they're not sure. You can either chat with the agent to discover items or upload a photo (say, of a piece of clothing) to find tailored, visually similar recommendations. In a demo of the feature, a user looking for a new watch asks the new AI agent to "Show me vintage chronographs."

Figma is a browser-based design tool and platform that helps teams collaboratively sketch everything from website layouts and app screens to interactive prototypes -- all in real time. Each year, the company hosts its Config conference to reveal major updates, and this year, at Config 2025, Figma went all-in on AI, embedding it into nearly every new product. If Config 2025 made anything clear, it's that Figma views AI as the glue connecting its entire suite of products. The ultimate goal seems to be giving designers, marketers, and all users some extra brainpower at their fingertips -- freeing them to focus more on the big picture and less on the details. For starters, Figma introduced Figma Make, an AI-powered tool that turns simple text prompts into working prototypes or even functional apps.

OpenAI, the company that develops ChatGPT, has decided to cancel its plans to transform the organization into a for-profit company. Instead, the non-profit organization that founded OpenAI will continue to run the business as before. The for-profit plans, announced in December 2024, were justified at the time by a need to secure sufficient capital to keep developing expensive artificial general intelligence (AGI). Now, instead of a full conversion to a for-profit company, OpenAI's for-profit LLC will be transformed into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), which is a type of US company that's beholden to both its shareholders and its purpose-driven mission. The existing OpenAI non-profit organization will retain control of the PBC and become one of its largest shareholders.

We've all been there--sitting and staring at row after row of Netflix categories, trying to find something new to watch. I've browsed Netflix so much, I feel like I've scrolled for shows more than I've actually streamed them. Netflix has offered many solutions to try and help solve the video browsing blues, from the streaming's famous algorithm to the "play something" button. Now, Netflix has a new tool to help you find the perfect movie or show--and yes, AI has entered the chat, quite literally. Coming soon as a "small" opt-in only beta for the Netflix iOS app, Netflix's new AI chatbot will help you search for videos using "natural, conversational phrases" rather than just sifting through rows and rows of categories. For example, you'll be able to type "Something funny and upbeat" or "I want something scary, but not too scary" into the chat box, and Netflix's AI bot will serve up a list of suggestions, and with a comment like "Good vibes only: These comedies will leave you smiling, laughing or both."

Looking for a new job is a job in itself. From finding the perfect role to apply to, to acing the interview, you need to do a lot of prep work to maximize your chances of landing the role. On Wednesday, LinkedIn introduced new AI tools to make the job-search process more intuitive and easier to navigate. The best tools are highlighted below -- and you won't want to skip them. The first step in the job-search process is finding openings that fit your expertise and expectations.

An artificial intelligence model trained on the medical data of 57 million people who have used the National Health Service in England could one day assist doctors in predicting disease or forecast hospitalisation rates, its creators have claimed. However, other researchers say there are still significant privacy and data protection concerns around such large-scale use of health data, while even the AI's architects say they can't guarantee that it won't inadvertently reveal sensitive patient data. The model, called Foresight, was first developed in 2023. That initial version used OpenAI's GPT-3, the large language model (LLM) behind the first version of ChatGPT, and trained on 1.5 million real patient records from two London hospitals. Now, Chris Tomlinson at University College London and his colleagues have scaled up Foresight to create what they say is the world's first "national-scale generative AI model of health data" and the largest of its kind.

The journey to adaptive production is not just about addressing today's pressures, like rising costs and supply chain disruptions--it's about positioning businesses for long-term success in a world of constant change. "In the coming years," says Jana Kirchheim, director of manufacturing for Microsoft Germany, "I expect that new key technologies like copilots, small language models, high-performance computing, or the adaptive cloud approach will revolutionize the shop floor and accelerate industrial automation by enabling faster adjustments and re-programming for specific tasks." These capabilities make adaptive production a transformative force, enhancing responsiveness and opening doors to systems with increasing autonomy--designed to complement human ingenuity rather than replace it. These advances enable more than technical upgrades--they drive fundamental shifts in how manufacturers operate. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT's Center for Advanced Production Technologies, explains that automation is "going from a rigid high-volume, low-mix focus"--where factories make large quantities of very few products--"to more flexible high-volume, high-mix, and low-volume, high-mix scenarios"--where many product types can be made in custom quantities.

Last week was a bad one for video games journalism. Two key contributors to the veteran site Giant Bomb, Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti, have announced their departure after a recent podcast was taken down. The 888th episode of the Giant Bombcast reportedly featured a section lampooning new brand guidelines issued to staff and is no longer available online. Later this week, it was announced that major US site Polygon was being sold to Valnet, owner of the ScreenRant and GameRant brands, resulting in a swathe of job losses. This follows ReedPop's sale, in 2024, of four high-profile UK-based sites – Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun and VG247 – to IGN Entertainment, owned by Ziff Davis, which also resulted in redundancies.