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Shipping companies warn of delays and new charges from Trump’s China tariffs
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…
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The Untold Winners of the Trump Memecoin Frenzy
When US president Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, he sparked a trading frenzy. A constellation of little-known crypto platforms quietly profited.
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s1: A Simple Yet Powerful Test-Time Scaling Approach for LLMs
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…
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Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow button
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…
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What’s on your desk, Nick Statt?
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…
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Google is adding AI watermarks to photos manipulated by Magic Editor
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…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters
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…
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This vintage-looking camera has a button for computational photography
The OM System OM-3 borrows’s design is reminiscent of the Olympus OM-1 film camera from the early ‘70s. | Image: OM System OM System has announced a new Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera called the OM-3 with a design inspired by the Olympus OM-1 film camera that first debuted in 1972. Despite its vintage appearance,…
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Elon Musk’s presidency is just getting started
On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re discussing a very big problem with extremely far-reaching consequences: how dysfunctional has the federal government in the United States become, and how much of it has been handed to Elon Musk? If you’ve even glanced at the news over the past week, you’ve likely come across some alarming headlines…
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Spotify signs Warner Music deal heralding new subscription tiers
A new “higher priced premium tier” is expected to launch this year. Spotify and Warner Music Group have inked a new multi-year deal covering publishing and recorded music that aims to “shape the future of audio-visual streaming.” In its announcement, Spotify says the agreement will expand the streaming platform’s catalog of audio and visual content…