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Tech Crunch – Tencent hires WizardLM team, a Microsoft AI group with an odd history
WizardLM, a Beijing-based Microsoft AI research group, appears to have joined Tencent, the Chinese company that owns WeChat and blockbuster games like PUBG Mobile. In a post on X on Tuesday, Can…
Tech Crunch – TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, a new image-to-video tool
TikTok is launching its first image-to-video AI feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature is called “TikTok AI Alive” and allows users to turn static photos into videos within TikTok…
KTSM News – Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso to offer free measles vaccines
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso, in collaboration with the El Paso Department of Public Health, will offer measles vaccines at no cost to the…
Tech Crunch – Elon Musk’s The Boring Company might be in line for an Amtrak contract
Federal railroad regulators are in talks with Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company (TBC), over a multi-billion Amtrak project, according to The New York Times. Citing sources familiar with the matter,…
Tech Crunch – UP.Labs-Porsche’s newest startup wants to be the Plaid of automotive retail
As serial entrepreneur Joel Milne founded, scaled, and then successfully sold mobile auto repair service startup RepairSmith to AutoNation, he was plagued by a persistent problem. The automotive retail industry has a…
Tech Crunch – Google’s Find My Device becomes Find Hub amid expansion
Android users will have more ways to find their devices and other items, Google announced on Tuesday during the Android Show, a week before Google I/O 2025. The company says its Find…
Tech Crunch – Google announces 1B+ RCS messages sent in the U.S. daily
During the Android Show leading up to Google I/O, Google on Tuesday offered a brief update on the adoption of the RCS (Rich Communication Services) protocol, an upgrade to SMS that offers…
KTSM News – Travel advisory issued for Southern New Mexico
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Travel advisories have been issued for Tuesday, May 13, and Wednesday, May 14, due to strong winds and blowing dust expected to impact Southern New Mexico between…
Border Report – 2nd mayoral candidate killed ahead of June 1 elections in Veracruz
TEXISTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen killed a mayoral candidate from Mexico’s governing party in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and four others who accompanied her, the second such local candidate killing in the…