EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Mexican drug cartels are not letting crackdowns on drug trafficking and illegal immigration at the border stop them from making money. In recent weeks, Border Report…
Tech Crunch – Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more U.S. cities
Walmart and Wing are expanding their partnership and rolling out drone delivery to dozens of more stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – First trial of immigrant accused of trespassing on Texas border military zone ends in acquittal
The trial of the Peruvian woman was the first test of the Trump administration’s new policy aimed at prosecuting immigrants who crossed the border illegally with military-related charges. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics
Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – Texas secretary of state refers 33 potential noncitizen voters for criminal investigation
The 33 potential voting violations are a tiny fraction of the roughly 11 million who cast ballots in the November 2024 election. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling. Read more:…
Tech Crunch – Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’
Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is…
Border Report – Trump says Egypt excluded from travel ban because ‘they have things under control’
President Trump said Egypt was not included on a proclamation banning travel into the U.S. from several countries on Thursday because “they have things under control.” “Egypt has been a country that…
Border Report – Border Report Live: Cartels hijacking cargo trains in US
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Mexican drug cartels are not letting crackdowns on drug trafficking and illegal immigration at the border stop them from making money. In recent weeks, Border Report…
El Paso Matters – Federal judge in El Paso acquits Peruvian migrant in Texas military zone trespassing case
A federal magistrate in El Paso this week acquitted a Peruvian migrant on charges of criminal trespassing on the Texas National Defense Area in May – the first such case to reach…