The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup
A marketing automation startup called Conversation has a founding story that sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – Crabbing Is a Coastal Texas Tradition With Legs—and Claws
On a mild Tuesday afternoon in late spring, Johnathan Malveaux and Shalonda Thompson tied six chicken legs onto strings and tossed each one into Clam Lake. Wearing bright red T-shirts and athletic…
Tech Crunch – Gen AI apps doubled their revenue, grew to 1.7B downloads in first half of 2025
People are downloading and spending money on Gen AI apps more than ever. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – YouTube loosens profanity rules for monetized videos
YouTube is tweaking its profanity-related rules to allow creators to monetize videos with swearing in them, provided the profanity is contained to the first seven seconds of the video. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – El Paso events: Celebrate Cool Canyon Nights’ finale, take in Barroco concert at art museum
Here’s a roundup of some culture and civic events in the borderland in the coming week. Cool Canyon Nights Concludes with Fungi Mungle Cool Canyon Nights wraps up its summer concert series…
Tech Crunch – AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US
Israel-based eVTOL startup AIR has raised $23 million to scale production of both its piloted and uncrewed cargo aircraft, and enter the U.S. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability
Observe just raised a $156 million Series C round as the company looks to offer support for Apache Iceberg by the end of the year. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Google says it will sign EU’s AI code of practice
Google confirmed it will sign the European Union’s general purpose AI code of practice. Meta has already said it will not sign the voluntary framework. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – A Pitmaster Traded Seven Longhorns to Get a Smoker for His Tex-Mex BBQ Joint
Fernando “Fred” Mendoza needed a smoker, and he had some Longhorn cattle to trade. Mendoza owns M3 Longhorn Ranch, near Valley View, less than twenty miles from Oklahoma. Nolan Belcher owns B4…