Americas News
X is going to let Grok curate your timeline
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Apr 22, 2026
X is putting its AI chatbot, Grok, in charge of your timeline. In an announcement on Wednesday, X product head Nikita Bier says Premium subscribers on iOS can get early access to a feature that allows...
Tesla’s revenue rises again as it prepares for more AI and robotics
- Technology
- Andrew J. Hawkins
- Apr 22, 2026
Tesla released its 2026 first-quarter financial earnings today, providing another look at the progress of Elon Musk's $1 trillion bet to transform his company into a leader of AI and robotics. Tesla s...
AI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth Warren
- Technology
- Lauren Feiner
- Apr 22, 2026
"I know a bubble when I see one." That's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who led the push to create a new consumer financial regulator in the wake of the 2008 recession, told a crowd at a Vanderbil...
OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Apr 22, 2026
OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. In its blog post, OpenAI give...
Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks
- Technology
- Tina Nguyen
- Apr 22, 2026
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge readers about tech politics, political tech, and how they're muddying the waters of Washington, DC. My birthday is this week, and if you're not a...
Former MrBeast exec sues over ‘years’ of alleged harassment
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Apr 22, 2026
A former employee of Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson has filed a lawsuit alleging that she faced "intentional infliction of emotional distress" from harassment at the YouTuber's production company, was aske...
Ember’s self-heating smart mug is more than $50 off ahead of Mother’s Day
- Technology
- Sheena Vasani
- Apr 22, 2026
Coffee is what gets many of us through the workday, and a proper smart mug can keep it hot for hours so you can maintain your focus without constantly getting up to reheat your cup. Thankfully, if you...
Watch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked players
- Technology
- Andrew Liszewski
- Apr 22, 2026
Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron's FOREPHUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was...
Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cyberscurity agency
- Technology
- Lauren Feiner
- Apr 22, 2026
Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation's central cybersecurity coordinato...
Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership
- Technology
- Tom Warren
- Apr 22, 2026
Microsoft has started teasing a new Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership, just a day after lowering prices of its Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscriptions. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma...
Google Meet will take AI notes for in-person meetings too
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Apr 22, 2026
Google's AI meeting notetaker is no longer limited to Google Meets - Gemini can also generate summaries and transcripts of in-person meetings now, as well as meetings on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, as f...
Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’
- Technology
- Tom Warren
- Apr 22, 2026
Microsoft first revealed it was building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google all the way back in 2022. Former Xbox president Sarah Bond even went on stage at a Bloomberg event near...