Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – What’s Scaleup Europe, the $5.7B fund that just backed satellite company ICEYE?
Scaleup Europe, a public-private fund with a $5.7 billion target, made its first investment by backing Finnish satellite company ICEYE. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
One of OpenAI’s longest serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was “excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage…
Tech Crunch – General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – Lowenfield family’s $300,000 gift invests in cancer care for El Pasoans
For Ronnie and Ashley Lowenfield, supporting the future Steve and Nancy Fox Cancer Center is an investment in the health of the community they call home. The El Paso couple has committed…
Tech Crunch – An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn’t solved it — but the company’s models made more progress than…
Tech Crunch – Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition
Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences, which will kick off its new defense business. Read more: Read More
Border Report – Mexican reinforcements arrive for wildfire fight in western Canada after 20,000 flee
The 156-square-kilometer (60-square-mile) fire has killed an 80-year-old woman and burned toward Summerland, a community of about 12,000 people roughly 300 kilometers (185 miles) east of Vancouver. Read: Read More
El Chuqueño Blog – Citlali Delgado, Artist
Every artist needs a body of work. One painting, or one song, or one role, on stage or the big screen, won’t lead to fame and a successful career. (Don’t tell that…
Border Report – Partial solar eclipse coming to northern US: What to know
Skygazers in parts of the northern U.S. will have the chance to see a rare celestial event this week. Read: Read More