Amazon’s latest Prime perk is a $100 discount on One Medical Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAmazon announced that Prime subscribers can now join One Medical, the primary care service that Amazon acquired for $3.9 billion, at a steep discount. A membership normally costs $199 per year, but the company has dropped that price to $99 annually (or $9 monthly) for its Prime customers. The discount is ef…

Cruise is recalling 950 driverless cars after one of its vehicles ran over a pedestrian Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty ImagesCruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, says it is recalling 950 of its driverless vehicles in response to an October incident in which one of its robotaxis ran over a pedestrian. The recall, which was initiated by the company, will take the form of an over-the-air software upd…

Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage Green bubbles in Apple’s Messages app. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeiMessage serves as “an important gateway between business users and their customers” and should be regulated as a “core” service under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), said Google and a group of major European telcos in a letter sent to the European Commis…

Meta to require political advertisers disclose AI-generated content Illustration: Nick Barclay / The VergeMeta announced Wednesday that it would require advertisers to disclose when potentially misleading AI-generated or altered content is featured in political, electoral, or social issue ads. The new rule applies to advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that contain “realistic” images, videos, or audio false…

Microsoft offers politicians protection against deepfakes Julia Nikhinson/For The Washington Post via Getty ImagesAmid growing concern that AI can make it easier to spread misinformation, Microsoft is offering its services, including a digital watermark identifying AI content, to help crack down on deepfakes and enhance cybersecurity ahead of several worldwide elections. In a blog post co-authored by M…

Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal reportedly happening this week, with trailer dropping in December Grand Theft Auto V was a huge hit. | Image: GettyRockstar Games reportedly plans to reveal Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment in the hugely popular open-world franchise, as early as this week. Bloomberg reports that an announcement could come this week, with a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI set to drop in December to mark 25 years of Roc…

Samsung’s Galaxy S24 will likely include on-device generative AI called Samsung Gauss Image: JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty ImagesSamsung has started to detail its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, that can run locally on devices. Korea Times reports that Gauss will be integrated into the next Galaxy S24 handset, expected in early 2024. Samsung showcased Gauss during its own AI forum this week, revealing how the AI model can ge…

LG’s new ultrawide monitors are a little smaller and a little cheaper It’s wide. | LGLG has a pair of new 45-inch ultrawide gaming monitors. That sounds very wide to me, though LG says it’s the equivalent of two 24-inch monitors, which sounds almost compact compared to the 49-inchers from Samsung and LG, or the gargantuan Samsung Odyssey Ark we tested last year. The UltraGear 45GR65DC ($799) and 45GR75DC ($899) …

Instagram will finally let you disable read receipts in DMs Image: Kristen Radtke / The VergeSoon, Instagram users will have a choice about using read receipts in direct message conversations. Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri both announced on their Instagram Broadcast channels that the change is currently in testing, and Mosseri included this picture showing the toggle as well as what it looks like in a…

Apple updates iOS so BMW’s wireless charging won’t break your iPhone 15 Photo by Dan Seifert / The VergeApple just released iOS 17.1.1, and it has fixes for a couple notable bugs that have popped up recently. One bug was pretty bad. Some users had reported that if they tried to charge their iPhone 15 using BMW’s in-car wireless charging, certain NFC features like Apple Pay or BMW’s digital car key would break. BMW’s…

Google is is bringing generative AI to advertisers Very clickable good dogs. | Image: GoogleGoogle is rolling out new generative AI tools for creating ads, from writing the headlines and descriptions that appear along with searches to creating and editing the accompanying images. It’s pitching the tool for use by both advertising agencies as well as businesses without in-house creative staff. Us…

Night in the Woods follow-up Revenant Hill has been canceled Revenant Hill. | Image: The Glory SocietyRevenant Hill, the much-anticipated follow-up to indie hit Night in the Woods, has been canceled. According to development studio The Glory Society, the decision was made after members of the team were forced to step away from the project due to “recent serious health issues.” “Making anything complex pos…

Ubisoft lays off dozens of workers as gaming industry struggles drag on Image: UbisoftUbisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team. Hybride — the name of Ubisoft’s Montreal-based visual effects studio — has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy’s Jack Rya…

Theo Von’s podcast is climbing the charts, with a little help from TikTok Photo by Stephen J. Cohen / Getty ImagesThis is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hope you all had a great weekend. Today, I’ve got news on James Corden’s new SiriusXM deal, Theo Von’s rise on the charts, and, in what I will admit is a significant tone shift, a look at which podcasts…

Nintendo is making a live-action Zelda movie Image: NintendoNintendo’s foray into movies isn’t stopping anytime soon: the company has confirmed that it’s working on a live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. The movie will be directed by Wes Ball, best known for the Maze Runner trilogy and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto will serve as a …

Google, Meta, Discord, and more team up to fight child abuse online Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeA new program called Lantern aims to fight online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) with cross-platform signal sharing between online companies like Meta and Discord. The Tech Coalition, a group of tech businesses with a cooperative aim to fight online child sexual exploitation, wrote i…

WhatsApp head confirms in-app ads are still in the works Illustration: The VergeWhatsApp might still deploy ads on the platform alongside the app’s Instagram Stories-like Status feature, company head Will Cathcart recently said in an interview. As pointed out by TechCrunch, Cathcart stated that WhatsApp ads could show up in different places within the app, including the newer Channels feature and stat…

Reddit is starting to test its own add-ons for the platform Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeReddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform. The company’s first add-ons, available to a small number of subreddits and only to mods, will include tools for mods to more easily monitor and remove comment threads; ban spammers and remove their content; and fo…

The Asus ROG Ally has fallen to an all-time low ahead of Black Friday The ROG Ally certainly isn’t perfect, but it’s still a big step forward for Windows handhelds.Thanks to the rousing success of the Nintendo Switch and Valve’s Steam Deck, it’s safe to say that portable gaming is having a moment — something The Verge’s David Pierce discussed at length with the Polygon crew on a recent episode of The Vergecast. As…

Waze rolls out crash history alerts for accident-prone roads Waze will warn you when a route is crash-prone. | Image: WazeWaze has a new safety feature that launches an alert when drivers are coming up on a particularly crash-prone section of their route. Waze’s blog post says the feature, which has been in beta since last year, uses “historical crash data and key information about your route” like traffi…