This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. On TikTok, the tanned youths are explaining why they no longer wear sunscreen. …
… Image: Gemini for Science is a group of AI tools meant to help researchers make new discoveries. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/demis-hassabis-2.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all Meanwhile, AlphaGenome is another model that helps researchers predict mutations in human DNA … …
… She wrote that “constant panic around our projects, people, goals, etc generates chaos and churn,” and that “we talk about focus but in practice our approach is do-everything and do it fast because we constantly get pressure to change priorities and shuffle around people and projects.” She also wro… …
… Now that the new VanMoof is once again producing spare parts for its expanding network of European service partners, co-CEO Eliott Wertheimer told Bike Europe that he wanted “to help those who were let down by the old company and get them riding.” VanMoof stages comeback with launch of new e-bike s… …
… The green-and-white Fitbit icon will be replaced by a multicolored heart icon for Google Health. “Fitbit’s DNA is a great tracker — an accessible tracker that everyone can go and use,” explains Rishi Chandra, Google’s vice president of health and home. “One question I get is, ‘Well, why did it take… …
… Now, to your question about what it can do and cannot do, it’s obviously possible for us to control the wiper. I’m sure that you have seen that it can do way more. It can change your drive modes. It can change your ride height. …
… The product shares a lot of DNA with robots that we know were manufactured with Picea. …
… Maybe another reason to change course.” Brockman says he agrees, and that the path ahead should be an “AI research non-profit through end of 2017 , AI research and hardware for-profit starting 2018 , and government project when: ?? .” As a token of appreciation for their work at OpenAI, Musk offers… …
… Who knows if OpenAI doing Sora, which is TikTok for deepfakes — actually, we know. We know the answer is, you should have some guardrails. So, I’m posing you the same question. We see a particularly originalist judiciary hell-bent on using originalism to change precedent at alarming rates. …
… People have to change their workflow. Now, the photographers are changed on it. …