Some two thousand members of the North Texas business elite once gathered for a black-tie gala to celebrate the grand opening of a banking giant’s new headquarters. InterFirst Corporation was moving to…
Tech Crunch – Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows
Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. ChatGPT would be released…
Tech Crunch – Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom
Adobe says the feature is up to the task, regardless of how complex of a background the object is set against. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read…
Tech Crunch – Sonos finally made some headphones
The market play is clear from the outset: The $449 headphones are firmly targeted at an audience that would otherwise be purchasing the Bose QC Ultra or Apple AirPods Max. © 2024…
Tech Crunch – Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells
Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline with age. In California, for example, the amount of electricity…
Tech Crunch – Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview
Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs) with their…
El Paso Matters – 6 things to help you understand UTEP’s NSF grant suspension
The National Science Foundation recently suspended what could have amounted to a $160 million grant to the Borderland over the next 10 years, pending an investigation. The NSF hasn’t said what it…
Tech Crunch – Porsche invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance
All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as the liquid electrolyte inside thickens. Drivers in…
KTSM News – Tuesday 9-hour forecast: Sun will shine across El Paso
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Happy Tuesday! We’re forecasting mostly clear skies with a high of 93-degrees with strongest east slopes by 2 p.m. Winds will begin to pick up at noon…
Tech Crunch – Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
Scale AI has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors including Amazon and Meta. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…