Ever wonder how much electricity you’re using when you prompt, or thank, an AI model? Hugging Face engineer Julien Delavande did, so he built a tool to help arrive at the answer….
Texas Monthly – CPS took a Texas newborn for three weeks. Now the family is suing.
The lawsuit says the state investigated the family without a proper hearing and determined it had “reason to believe” that the parents engaged in medical neglect. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Starbase, the SpaceX site, is likely Texas’ next city. What happens next?
City leaders, who will be elected in May, will have just a short window to decide what services to provide, like police or fire, and how to tax residents. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries
Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is, to redevelop critical industry infrastructure, and to bring back businesses, which had moved or outsourced some…
Tech Crunch – Adobe releases new Firefly image generation models and a redesigned Firefly web app
Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors, and a redesigned web app that houses all its AI models,…
Tech Crunch – Adobe wants to create a robots.txt styled indicator for images used in AI training
For years, websites included information about what kind of crawlers were not allowed on their site with a robots.txt file. Adobe, which wants to create a similar standard for images, has added…
Border Report – Trump signals shift in tone on China tariffs
President Trump sought to tamp down a trade war with China on Wednesday, acknowledging that the 145 percent duty he slapped on Beijing is “very high” while appearing to be optimistic that…
Border Report – Department of Homeland Security points to another agency when asked about court-barred deportations
Attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security say the agency didn’t violate a judge’s order detailing when people may be deported to countries other than their own because it was the Defense Department —…
KTSM News – DA Montoya discusses finality of Walmart mass shooting case
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Patrick Crusius, the man who will spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting and killing 23 people and injuring 22 others in a hate-inspired…
El Paso Matters – El Paso judge rips ICE over Venezuelan couple’s detention, orders their release
U.S. District Judge David Briones was blunt with attorneys representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after a 90-minute hearing Wednesday on whether a couple from Venezuela should remain in their custody…