EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Firefighters battling the Seven Cabins Fire in New Mexico’s Capitan Mountain Wilderness have increased the containment to 61 percent, as of Tuesday, June 2. Crews reportedly burned…
El Paso Matters – El Paso city representative seeks to terminate Meta data center deal, a move city officials have warned carries huge risks
El Paso District 2 city Rep. Josh Acevedo is seeking to terminate the tax break agreement the city awarded Meta Platforms Inc. in exchange for the tech giant developing a $10 billion…
Tech Crunch – Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
Uber’s cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open-source framework for spinning up AI evaluations. Read more: Read More
Border Report – Mullin faces Senate grilling on DHS budget, immigration crackdown and World Cup worries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is slated to appear Tuesday in the Senate to answer questions about the agency’s budget, at a time of intense scrutiny about how the…
Tech Crunch – A startup, Everand, is now bundling ebooks, audiobooks, and book clubs in challenge to Amazon
A new reading subscription from Everand offers access to both ebooks and audiobooks, and Fable’s book club community. Read more: Read More
Border Report – Another White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been announced for July 24 with ‘enhanced safety measures’
The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has announced plans for a second dinner this summer after the annual event was canceled following an assassination attempt against President Trump and other attendees at…
Tech Crunch – Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI
The caveat is that one of the world’s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – ‘We will right the ship’: EPISD plans largest workforce reduction in county school district history amid budget crisis
If the El Paso Independent School District declares financial exigency and permits Superintendent Brian Lusk to cut hundreds of jobs in coming weeks, the district can move quickly to restore financial health,…
Tech Crunch – Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system. Read more: Read More