Americas
Latest news and updates from Americas.
Fallout’s season 2 finale left plenty unanswered as it expanded in scope
There's been a clear shift over Fallout's second season. While the show started out as a relatively goofy introduction to the postapocalyptic wasteland, one tha...
Roblox calls its take on AI world models ‘real-time dreaming’
Less than a week after Google showed off Project Genie, a tool powered by an AI world model that lets users generate interactive 3D experiences from prompts, Ro...
GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents
GitHub is making Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI's Codex AI coding agents directly available inside GitHub today. A new public preview adds Claude and Codex to G...
‘Incognito’ operator sentenced to 30 years for running a dark web drug market
On Tuesday, Rui-Siang Lin was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running "Incognito Market," a dark web platform that prosecutors say "sold more than $105 mill...
The 14-inch, ARM-based Asus Vivobook is half off today
I’m typically reluctant to recommend budget-friendly laptops, particularly ones that run Windows, because they suck, more often than not. That’s beginning to ch...
The Verge’s 2026 Valentine’s Day gift guide (for him)
Valentine's Day is often thought of as the quintessential Hallmark holiday - and why wouldn't it be? Most of the time, it's marketed to us with massive floral a...
I drove three Chinese cars — here’s why they would clean up in the US
It only took a brief drive in a Zeekr 7X to convince me: Chinese cars are now competitive and could be sold in the US tomorrow. The compact battery-electric cro...
Spotify launches offline lyrics, translations, and lyric previews
On Wednesday, Spotify announced a few new lyrics features aiming to make it easier to understand and access song lyrics, including translations, previews, and o...
Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and nation...
Amazon rolls out Alexa Plus nationwide and launches a new free tier
Amazon has announced that its generative AI-powered digital assistant Alexa Plus is now available to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, A...
Stealing cable has evolved: the new face of TV piracy
Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across something unexpected: In bet...
Anthropic says ‘Claude will remain ad-free,’ unlike ChatGPT
Anthropic has announced that it won't be bringing ads to its AI chatbot Claude, in sharp contrast to confirmed plans from OpenAI to allow advertising in ChatGPT...