Instagram’s Close Friends feature is expanding. Previously, users could share stories with a select group of people, rather than all of their followers, but now, users can also share main feed posts…
Tech Crunch – Baton, a music collaboration platform for unreleased material, raises $4.2M
Music startup Baton secured $4.2 million in funding, the company announced today. Baton will use the new capital to further develop its product, grow its team and roll out new features. Baton…
Tech Crunch – You.com launches new APIs to connect LLMs to the web
When OpenAI connected ChatGPT to the internet, it supercharged the AI chatbot’s capabilities. Now, the search engine You.com wants to do the same for every large language model (LLMs) out there. You.com…
Tech Crunch – 3D generative AI platform Atlas emerges from stealth with $6M to accelerate virtual worldbuilding
Atlas, a 3D generative AI platform, is launching today after two years in stealth with $6 million in seed funding. The funding consists of two rounds: a $4.5M round led by 6th…
Texas Monthly – The Pioneering, Barnstorming Women’s Basketball Stars of the Texas Cowgirls
On a cold Indiana night in late 1955, one year after graduating from the school, Linda Yearby entered the Chrisney High gymnasium with her basketball team. She wasn’t wearing the school colors…
Texas Monthly – A Shared Faith Led Two Taqueros to Honor God With Guisados
In 2014, Karen Mata had a heart attack and went into a coma for three days. After her quick recovery, her husband, Gregory Mata, a 22-year employee at Anheuser-Busch in Houston, took…
Tech Crunch – Europe’s AI Act talks head for crunch point
Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications of artificial intelligence appear to be on a tricky knife edge. Speaking during a roundtable…
Tech Crunch – YouTube adapts its policies for the coming surge of AI videos
YouTube today announced how it will approach handling AI-created content on its platform with a range of new policies surrounding responsible disclosure as well as new tools for requesting the removal of…
The Border Chronicle – Support The Border Chronicle Today and Push Back Against the Border Haters
Yes, this is a magic flying javelina with rainbow sparkles. Only in the borderlands! The 2024 election season is upon us. At stake is nothing less than our democracy. In that context,…
Tech Crunch – X says 325K posts and 375K accounts ‘actioned’ over Israel-Hamas war violations
X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, has been facing waves of criticism over how it has, under owner Elon Musk, grappled with issues of trust and safety. Today, the company,…