The first look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider series has been revealed. Check out the photo below.

The Game Of Thrones star will portray the archaeologist and adventurer in Amazon Prime Video’s TV adaptation of the hit game franchise.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) serves as creator, writer, executive producer and co-showrunner. Chad Hodge is attached as co-showrunner and executive producer, with Jonathan Van Tulleken directing and executive producing.

On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to charge major tech companies for using Wikipedia content to train the AI models that power AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

While these same companies previously scraped Wikipedia without permission, the deals mean that most major AI developers have now signed on to the foundation’s Wikimedia Enterprise program, a commercial subsidiary that sells API access to Wikipedia’s 65 million articles at higher speeds and volumes than the free public APIs provide. The foundation did not disclose the financial terms of the deals.

Apple is reportedly preparing to launch an updated entry-level iPhone in the first half of 2026, bringing several modern features to the budget lineup while holding onto one familiar limitation. A new supply-chain leak says the device will finally gain the Dynamic Island and Face ID, but will continue to use a standard 60Hz display.

MY JOURNEY ON TikTok Shop started out with a search for “hip hop jewelry.” It’s an innocuous search query multiple users have likely typed in, hoping to find something to wear. While browsing the cheap jewelry, I was struck by what TikTok’s algorithm repeatedly suggested that I might also be interested in: jewelry with blatant Nazi symbolism.

A new report shows that U.S. patent activity continued its multi-year decline in 2025, with Apple dropping to seventh place after receiving 2,722 grants, a 11% decrease from 2024. Here are the details.

Parent filings and grants decline for the sixth consecutive year

Patent data and analytics company IFI CLAIMS has published its yearly report on U.S. patent activity, and concluded that “for the third year running, the principal story of corporate innovation has been the dash to invest in artificial intelligence”.

According to the report, the U.S. saw 393,344 patent applications in 2025, a 8.6% decline from 2024, while patent grants slipped 0.2% to 323,272.