LONDON, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Loftie, maker of the award-winning alarm clock that replaces the smartphone on the nightstand, today launches Loftie+ — a behaviour-change system built to change habits, not track data.

Over half of UK and Irish adults stay up later than planned because of their phones — rising to 73% of 18- to 24-year-olds in the UK (Deloitte, 2024). The sleep industry’s answer: sell people a tracker and a score.

“The sleep industry is obsessed with measurement,” said Matt Hassett, founder and CEO of Loftie. “People are staring at a dozen numbers every morning trying to figure out why they feel terrible — while the phone that’s wrecking their sleep is the same device giving them the score. We’re not interested in adding more data. We’re interested in helping you put the phone down.”

Loftie+ is a mobile app (£9.99/€9.99 monthly or £59.99/€59.99 yearly) that works on its own — no Loftie hardware required. It combines nightly app blocking, daytime focus tools, and screen-time challenges, plus a credit card-sized Loftie Card for your wallet and a free browser extension.

At night: the app schedules blocking around sleep in three phases — Relax, Sleep, and Rise — guiding users from wind-down to wake-up with minimal phone interference.

During the day: the Loftie Card triggers Focus mode with a single tap — at your desk, before a meeting, when the kids get home. Unlike screen-time apps that stay on a shelf at home, the Card lives in your wallet, with you wherever you need to focus.

A free home screen widget, Flip, replaces your phone’s app grid with just the apps you choose — no icons, no distractions.

Loftie+ builds on a platform serving over 15,000 members across curated audio, personalised bedtime stories, and wind-down routines. For Loftie hardware owners, an optional feature called Loftie Drift blocks selected apps automatically when you enter the bedroom, using Bluetooth from your Clock or Lamp.

Loftie+ is available now on iOS and Android across the UK and EU. The browser extension and Flip are free.

About Loftie

Loftie is a sleep wellness brand designing products that help people put their phones down — for deeper sleep at night and better focus by day. The line includes the Loftie Clock, Loftie Lamp, and Loftie+. The Loftie Clock has been named a TIME Best Invention, recommended by Wirecutter five years running, and is carried at MoMA Design Store, Goop, and URBN.

Website: loftie.com

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New Multi-Agent Systems Enable Enterprise L&D Teams to Continuously Scale and Adapt Global Learning Content as Markets Shift

LONDON, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Smartcat, the leading enterprise AI platform for global content, today unveiled new Multi-Agent Systems for course creation and translation at Learning Technologies London 2026. The new capabilities enable enterprise L&D teams to create, translate, and continuously update global learning content up to 10x faster than traditional workflows — closing the adaptation gap that delays training rollouts and increases compliance risk.

The launch comes as recent Smartcat research indicates that 75% of L&D teams report at least a 25% year-over-year increase in content demand, and 50% cite regulatory compliance velocity as the most common complexity driver in scaling content.

This complexity is fueled by unprecedented pressure from local volatility. Shifting policies, regulations, data privacy laws, and market access rules by geography now demand continuous content updates across all languages faster than traditional or agency-led workflows can deliver.

“Traditional L&D workflows force teams to choose between relevance and reliability: continuously update content to reflect market changes and risk errors across languages, or maintain quality and let the content fall behind,” said Sherali Karimov, Chief Technology Officer at Smartcat. “Our AI Agents eliminate that tradeoff. L&D teams can now make changes in real time, in every language the business demands—all without introducing risk.”

Solutions on Display at Stand L05

Smartcat is demonstrating a comprehensive suite of AI-powered capabilities designed to keep enterprise global L&D content continuously up-to-date:

End-to-End Course Creation and Translation

Video, images, interactions, PDFs, and attachments are all translated within a single unified workflow—eliminating the need for multiple tools or manual cleanup. Powered by Smartcat’s Customer Intelligence Fabric, Smartcat’s agents learn from experts’ corrections and apply that knowledge to every future project, so quality continuously improves instead of resetting.

SCORM Translation — An Industry First

Smartcat is the only AI platform that translates entire SCORM packages. This is the industry’s first AI workflow that translates an entire learning experience, including interactions, multimedia, and attachments.

Continuous Updates with Delta Detection

Automatically detects source edits and updates all global versions. Only the modified segments are retranslated, ensuring consistency while dramatically reducing time and cost.

Engage with Smartcat at Learning Tech London

Experience live demonstrations of AI-powered course creation and translation workflows. See how AI Agents collaborate with human experts to deliver compliant, localized training at the speed of change. Smartcat experts will also lead two high-impact sessions:

“Keeping Up Is Over: How L&D Teams Win in an Age of Constant Change”

Theatre 11 | April 29, 12:30-13:00 + April 30 10:15-10:45

“Working Alongside Smartcat AI to Scale Global Training Without Risk”

Bitesize Learning Zone 2 | April 30 | 12:45-13:00

Register to meet the team: smartcat.com/events/learning-tech-london

About Smartcat

Smartcat is the leading enterprise AI platform for multilingual content and real-time market adaptation. Global enterprises use Smartcat to orchestrate AI agents and human experts across communications, content, and compliance workflows, continuously adapting to policy, access, and product change. The platform transforms content in any format into any language, from documents and videos to complex websites and software, enabling enterprises to operate globally at scale. Twenty-five percent of the Fortune 1000 trust Smartcat to communicate their ideas and innovations worldwide.

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Nexus Connect provides a single, university-branded connector inside AI chat agents, giving students and researchers seamless access to scholarly resources and services.

LONDON, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced Nexus Connect, an AI gateway to universities’ academic resources and services. Nexus Connect is designed to meet users wherever they work — as a connector inside leading general-purpose AI chat agents, such as ChatGPT or Claude.

AI chat agents increasingly serve as the main workspace for students and researchers. In recent months, Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard that lets AI chat agents connect directly to external data sources, tools and services — has emerged as a powerful way to bring academic resources directly into these environments and ground AI responses in trusted content. But as vendors across the academic ecosystem release product-specific MCP services, libraries are left out of the picture — with no visibility, control, or certainty that their licensed resources and services are surfaced.

Nexus Connect addresses this directly, integrating with other platforms that support MCP integration. Powered by the Clarivate Academic AI Platform, it gives users easy access to their university licensed content and services, directly from AI chat agents. It brings together Clarivate content and services, library resources, and services from other academic vendors into a single institutional presence. Nexus Connect joins Clarivate Nexus Extend, a browser-based academic assistant, as part of Clarivate’s growing suite of solutions designed to meet AI users where they are.

Oren Beit-Arie, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, Academia & Government at Clarivate said: “Libraries are where trusted knowledge lives, and our goal is to make sure that remains true in AI environments.

“Nexus Connect is the latest example of our strategic approach to academic AI – embedding transformative intelligence into our products, containing our carefully curated data and content, while connecting AI users to trusted resources. We are providing institutions with a unified layer that keeps their resources and identity in front of students and researchers. Alongside Nexus Extend, it keeps libraries at the center of research and learning.”

Shirley Wong, University Librarian, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University said: “User expectations are changing fast as they want the speed and ease of AI as part of how they study and research. Our priority is to bring AI to users in a way they can trust, grounded in the library’s resources and expertise. MCP lets us do that, by building trusted AI services within our institutional environment.”

Five universities in North America and APAC will be among the first institutions to deploy Nexus Connect. A broad early access program is planned for July 2026.

Core capabilities include:

Entitlement-based access: Users can discover the resources their library has licensedInstitutional identity: The library stays visible and central, under the university’s brandConfigurable scope: Libraries control which services are exposed and how content sources are prioritizedExtensible architecture: Institutions can start with one service and expand over timeEnterprise-grade security and privacy: Built to meet security and privacy standards

Nexus Connect launches with two use cases available to early adopter partners:

Academic discovery: powered by Primo and the Clarivate Central Discovery Index (CDI), students and researchers can search and retrieve library materials – including local resources – directly from their AI chat environment, with links into the library’s holdings for full access.End-user library services: powered by Alma and Primo, users can manage book loans, holds, renewals and library accounts directly from their AI chat agent.

In practice, this means a student working in ChatGPT or Claude can search their university’s entire library collection, find an e-book on their topic and link to the full text, all without leaving the chat. If a print copy is needed instead, they can check availability and place a hold in the same conversation.

Subsequent releases will expand Nexus Connect with additional resources and services, including library expert resources, such as research guides and teaching materials; additional Clarivate products; and services from other vendors across the academic ecosystem.

Clarivate works with leading general-purpose AI chat agent providers to deliver purpose-built institutional connectors that fit the needs of academic institutions — addressing priorities such as ease of deployment, usage attribution, and copyright protection.

Nexus Connect prioritizes security and privacy, to meet the requirements of academic institutions. It operates in accordance with Clarivate’s privacy policy and applicable data privacy regulations. 

Libraries and universities who wish to shape the Nexus Connect roadmap can apply for the early access program.

About Clarivate  
Clarivate is a leading global provider of transformative intelligence. We offer enriched data, insights & analytics, workflow solutions and expert services in the areas of Academia & Government, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences & Healthcare. For more information, please visit www.clarivate.com.  

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Amy Bourke-Waite, Senior Director, External Communications 
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