Americas
Latest news and updates from Americas.
AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The leaders of...
Tesla finally kills Autopilot in a bid to boost FSD subscriptions
Tesla scrapped its Autopilot driver assist feature that used to come standard in new vehicles, as it attempts to steer customers to its newly subscription-only...
Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its conte...
Microsoft Paint can now make AI coloring books
Microsoft is giving its Paint and Notepad apps on Windows new AI capabilities for editing text and making digital illustrations. The updates are currently rolli...
The TikTok deal is done, finally
Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. With approval from b...
Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes
Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can "verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed." But since Ring won't ve...
Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survived the purge at Ubisoft
In what world does Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake get canceled amid corporate restructuring and yet BG&E2 does not? "Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains a...
Samsung’s smallest Frame TVs have fallen to their lowest prices to date
Unless you’re dead set on picking up a larger panel, Samsung’s forthcoming 2026 Frame lineup represents a fairly minor upgrade. That makes last year’s model an...
Vimeo lays off ‘large portion’ of staff after Bending Spoons buyout
Vimeo is laying off employees around the globe just months after the Italian software company Bending Spoons acquired the platform for $1.38 billion, as reporte...
Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal
A judge is questioning whether Epic Games and Google are settling their long-running antitrust fight partly because of a previously unannounced partnership invo...
Sen. Markey questions OpenAI about ‘deceptive advertising’ in ChatGPT
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is pressing OpenAI about its move to bring ads to ChatGPT, and is asking several other companies whether they have similar plans. In lette...
Tesla is finally doing unsupervised robotaxi rides
Tesla is finally doing unsupervised robotaxi trips in Austin, Texas, according to a video posted on X. Elon Musk reposted the video, congratulating Tesla's AI t...