EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Gov. Greg Abbott’s office announced $15.4 million in state grants for infrastructure projects in military communities across the state on Tuesday, Jan. 9. The City of El…
Tech Crunch – Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform
Quora is back at it, raising funding for the first time in nearly seven years. The questions and answers website nabbed $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which will be used to…
Border Report – Trump stirs his base but ignores reality suggesting unauthorized migrants will vote
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around another top GOP concern — voter…
Tech Crunch – Substack won’t commit to proactively removing Nazi content, ensuring further fallout
Substack has industry-leading newsletter tools and a platform that independent writers flock to, but its recent content moderation missteps could prove costly. In late November, the Atlantic reported that a search of…
Tech Crunch – Hyundai says its electric air taxi business will take flight in 2028
Supernal, the advanced air mobility company under Hyundai Motor Group, took the wraps off its latest iteration of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft called the S-A2 that executives say is…
Tech Crunch – NASA delays Artemis moon missions to give SpaceX, others more time to develop tech
NASA is pushing back the next two Artemis missions to the moon — including the first crewed lunar mission in over fifty years — by around twelve months in order to give…
KTSM News – Faith groups oppose raising ‘credible fear’ standard for asylum-seekers
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Fifty faith-based organizations are warning the Biden administration and the Senate of a humanitarian debacle should they make it more difficult for asylum-seekers to come into…
Tech Crunch – Getty Images launches a new gen AI service for iStock customers
Getty Images, the stock media company, announced a new service this week at CES 2024 that leverages AI models trained on Getty’s iStock stock photography and video libraries to generate new licensable…
Border Report – Faith groups oppose raising ‘credible fear’ standard for asylum-seekers
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Fifty faith-based organizations are warning the Biden administration and the Senate of a humanitarian debacle should they make it more difficult for asylum-seekers to come into…
KTSM News – Adan Canto, ‘The Cleaning Lady’ and ‘Narcos’ actor, dies at 42
(KTLA) — Adan Canto, a Mexican-American actor who starred in “The Cleaning Lady” and “Narcos,” has died at 42. Canto passed away on Monday after a private battle with appendiceal cancer, a…