(The Hill) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has appealed a federal judge’s order indefinitely blocking President Trump’s executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship. In a short notice Thursday night, the…
Tech Crunch – VC Mike Ghaffary is looking for the job-creating AI startup that doesn’t yet exist
Ghaffary is looking to fund startups using AI to create high-paying jobs, rather than replace them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections
Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers’ access to support the study of systemic risks…
Tech Crunch – Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI
In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read…
Border Report – Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship ‘absurd’
(The Texas Tribune) — The Alice Independent School District in South Texas warned parents in a letter Wednesday that U.S. Border Patrol agents may be checking the immigration status of students on…
Texas Monthly – Kerrville Is the New Kerrville
Perhaps best known for its long-running folk music festival, which draws crowds of up to 30,000 every spring, the Hill Country town of Kerrville is equal parts artsy and laid-back. Drive about…
Tech Crunch – Laurene Powell Jobs joins Amazon in backing nuclear startup X-Energy in $700M round
X-Energy is one of many nuclear startups to have benefitted from the AI-driven data center boom. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation
Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of “at least” $20 billion, according to Reuters. It’s not…
Tech Crunch – HPE begins notifying data breach victims after Russian government hack
Hackers with Russian foreign intelligence were blamed for the breach, which also targeted Microsoft. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development
The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an…