Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for…
Texas Monthly – The Story: Saving a Crumbling Texas Freedom Colony
Editors’ note: This segment first appeared on Texas Monthly Presents, a television program airing on Texas PBS stations and on PBS.org. Hundreds of small, rural communities sprung up in Texas after the Civil War as emancipated…
KTSM News – Sen. Cornyn to visit migrant detention center going up at Fort Bliss
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) will tour a newly constructed migrant detention facility going up along Montana Avenue, located at Fort Bliss, later Monday. The facility, operated…
Tech Crunch – Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’
“Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk…
Tech Crunch – Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America
The automaker is investing $2 billion into the Louisville Assembly Plant with a $30,000 EV pickup slated for 2027. Read more: Read More
KTSM News – Daisy Fire in Gila National Forest now at 80% containment
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Firefighters reported significant progress in their battle against the Daisy Fire burning in the Gila National Forest. The incident management team reported that the fire is at…
El Paso Matters – As drought, climate change pressure El Paso water supply, farmers innovate to sustain orchards in one of nation’s biggest pecan-growing hubs
This is the second in a two-part series about pecan farming in the El Paso region. You can read Part I here. Inside a nondescript building off North Loop Drive, where longtime…
Tech Crunch – Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut
The global AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the…
Tech Crunch – Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice
Apple is testing a version of Siri that will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. The company plans to release a new version…
Texas Monthly – How America Fell Back in Love with Chili’s
In May I walked into a Chili’s Grill & Bar for the first time in a decade. I quickly adjusted to the sensory overload. My table was covered with a giant laminated menu,…