Wow, what a difference a day makes! Yesterday, the wind was peaking at 40 mph, and we were under a Blowing Dust Advisory. Today was sunny and 62. That’s El Paso! I…
KTSM News – 2 people arrested, charged with possible triple murder in New Mexico
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Two people were arrested and charged in connection to a possible triple murder in Lincoln County, New Mexico, the Alamogordo District Attorney’s Office said on Friday. Jan….
Tech Crunch – Autonomous vehicle testing in California dropped 50%. Here’s why.
Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California’s public roads, according to new data from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency reported Friday a…
KTSM News – Fabens ISD moves toward selling fire-damaged Annex Building
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Fabens Independent School District says it doesn’t have the money to restore its fire-damaged Annex Building and is moving ahead with plans to sell it. The…
Tech Crunch – OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card – a document outlining how…
Tech Crunch – Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in a wide-ranging Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI the company finds itself…
Border Report – Lawmaker: Fed funds threatened for migrant assistance programs under GOP-led Congress
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A South Texas lawmaker who sits on the House Appropriations Committee says federal funding for a program that reimburses municipalities and nonprofits for migrant assistance is at…
Tech Crunch – Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger
Midha says R1 won’t stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read…
KTSM News – El Paso Zoo welcomes newborn giraffe calf
Video courtesy to the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens. EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens has a newborn giraffe calf, the zoo announced on Friday,…
KTSM News – NM State Police to conduct sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols during February
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM)— New Mexico State Police will conduct sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and registration, insurance, and driver’s license checkpoints in all state counties during February. The State Police said it’s…