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Tech Crunch – OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. The company has released a handful of new models and dropped the price of…
Border Report – Abbott doubles down on border ‘invasion’ declaration after Supreme Court blow
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday accused the federal government of breaking the compact with the states following a Supreme Court ruling on Monday that cleared the way for the Border…
Border Report – Senate GOP pleads with Trump not to kill Ukraine-border security deal
Senate Republicans who favor sending aid to Ukraine and cutting a deal with Democrats to secure the U.S.-Mexico border are hoping that former President Trump’s Senate allies can intervene with the presidential…
Tech Crunch – FTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings
The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a new inquiry. Orders have been sent to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft,…
The Border Chronicle – Threat Multiplier: The U.S. Border and the Invisible Climate War
Subscribe now The aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on November 13, 2023. (Photo credit: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Share The first thing Cecilia Jaramillo Bailón told me was…
Tech Crunch – Apple reveals big App Store and iOS changes incoming in EU on DMA day
Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union as the iPhone maker prepares to roll out its response to the bloc’s ex ante competition reform, the…
Border Report – 400,000 asylum-seekers have used CBP One app to secure an appointment
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Using the CBP One app, more than 400,000 asylum-seekers so far have secured an appointment to enter the U.S. to begin their asylum cases, according to the…
Border Report – Speaker Johnson backs Abbott’s border ‘invasion’ decree
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sided with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in his feud with the federal government over razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying Thursday that he would “back him…
Tech Crunch – Google extends its Project IDX development environment with built-in iOS and Android emulators
Last summer, Google launched Project IDX, its experimental web-based full-stack development environment with built-in support for Codey, Google’s version of GitHub Copilot, and Flutter, Google’s cross-platform development framework. With today’s release, Google…