Author: Hunter

The Leica Lux Grip works with iPhone models supporting MagSafe accessories. | Image: Leica Leica has announced a new iPhone accessory called the Leica Lux Grip designed to make using its iOS-only Leica Lux app feel more like shooting with its dedicated cameras. It adds a DSLR-style grip to the iPhone and features customizable function… Read more

Ted Carstensen, the head of the United States Digital Service (USDS) organization that has been renamed to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is resigning instead of taking the “Fork in the Road” buyout offer for federal employees. “I write to let you know that I have decided to resign from USDS and today… Read more

DeepSeek’s R1 model release and OpenAI’s new Deep Research product will push companies to use techniques like distillation, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to build smarter, more specialized AI applications. From pricing and performance to hallucination risks and the importance of clean data, here’s what these breakthroughs mean for anyone… Read more

In the two days since President Trump enacted new tariffs on goods from China, none of the major US shipping companies and couriers have yet announced detailed policies on new fees, though some have warned of possible delays and disruption. Despite that, both senders and recipients are already reporting being asked to pay import taxes… Read more

When US president Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, he sparked a trading frenzy. A constellation of little-known crypto platforms quietly profited. Read more

Language models (LMs) have significantly progressed through increased computational power during training, primarily through large-scale self-supervised pretraining. While this approach has yielded powerful models, a new paradigm called test-time scaling has emerged, focusing on improving performance by increasing computation at inference time. OpenAI’s o1 model has validated this approach, showing enhanced reasoning capabilities through test-time… Read more

Meta is shutting down its Workplace platform next year, but Microsoft is planning to keep the dream of Facebook at work very much alive. Multiple sources at Microsoft tell me the company has started testing a fully integrated Facebook-like feed inside Microsoft Teams recently. Teams users will be able to post to the feed, known… Read more

What exactly is a producer? Well, according to Nick Statt, who is senior producer on The Verge’s Decoder podcast with Nilay Patel, “the word ‘producer’ means a lot of things in a lot of different contexts.” In his case — here at The Verge and in the world of audio — it means he and… Read more

Google Photos is adding its digital SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using the Magic Editor’s generative AI feature. The new feature is rolling out “this week” according to Google, and is intended to make it easier for people to quickly identify images that have been manipulated using the “reimagine” tool in Magic… Read more

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly infiltrated the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that collects and shares vital weather and climate information. Sources have told The Verge, as well as other news outlets, that they’re worried about drastic changes that could impact the public’s access to… Read more