• ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you

    OpenAI has revealed another new agentic feature for ChatGPT called deep research, which it says can operate autonomously to “plan and execute a multi-step trajectory to find the data it needs, backtracking and reacting to real-time information where necessary.” Instead of simply generating text, it shows a summary of its process in a sidebar, with…

  • Grammys Red Carpet Photos: 2025 Looks

    So far this awards season, nostalgia for classic Hollywood has dominated red-carpet looks. But compared with occasions like the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the Grammys have always been a little looser and more eclectic, sartorially speaking. While there may be plenty of glamour and elegance, the artists who attend “music’s biggest night” tend to…

  • From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

    Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that…

  • Top Security Officials at Aid Agency Put on Leave After Denying Access to Musk Team

    The two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave on Saturday night after refusing to give representatives of Elon Musk access to internal systems, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. And the agency’s chief of staff, Matt Hopson, a Trump administration political appointee…

  • Bookshop.org is a better way to buy and read ebooks

    Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 69, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for some web-slingin’, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Elon Musk’s gamer habits and spy satellites and…

  • Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency

    The top agent at the F.B.I.’s New York field office vowed in a defiant email to his staff to “dig in” after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack — and praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence. “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of…

  • Hands-on with the first hands-free smart locks from Schlage and Ultraloq.

    Imagine walking up to your front door and it unlocks — even opens — automatically as you approach. It may sound like the stuff of smart home dreams, but it could soon be a reality, thanks to ultra-wideband (UWB) technology arriving on smart locks. With its precise, real-time location capabilities, UWB enables a smart lock…

  • Fay Vincent, Baseball Commissioner in a Stormy Era, Dies at 86

    Fay Vincent, a lawyer who presided over Major League Baseball as its eighth commissioner during a time when it was shaken by labor strife, the first shadows of steroid use and, quite literally, a powerful earthquake that interrupted the 1989 World Series, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86. His death, in…

  • All the smart home news, reviews, and gadgets you need to know about

    The smart home holds so much promise. It can make life more convenient with lights that turn on as you walk in a room, doors that unlock as you approach, and robots that clean your floors. It can also make your home safer, more energy efficient, and even a little more fun. (Have you tried…

  • Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.

    The Trump administration has revoked Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States, leaving the population vulnerable to potential deportation in the coming months, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times. The move, President Trump’s first to remove such protections in his second term, signals that…