THC’s effects on issues ranging from homelessness to mental health were examined at Tuesday’s meeting with the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – ICE fatally shoots man in Houston after he allegedly tried to run over agent
Federal officials said agents stopped the man as part of a targeted enforcement operation and an ICE officer fired on him in self defense. Read: Read More
KTSM News – Estrella del Paso warns unpaid federal funding could force nonprofit to close
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Estrella del Paso, a longtime nonprofit legal services organization in El Paso, says it is facing a financial crisis after alleging the federal government has failed to…
KTSM News – El Paso City Council scraps Piedras Street reconstruction plan
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The controversial Piedras Street reconstruction project in Central El Paso is officially dead. Following intense pushback from local business owners, El Paso City Council voted 7-to-1 on…
KTSM News – Canutillo ISD names new principals after special ed scandal
Canutillo Independent School has appointed Veronica Cervantes as the new principal of Deanna Davenport Elementary School and Erika Pasieczny, Ph.D. as the new principal of Alderete Middle School, both of whom bring…
Tech Crunch – Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending. Read more: Read More
Border Report – Toyota moving Tacoma production from Tijuana to Texas
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Toyota is packing up its Tacoma truck production in Tijuana and moving it to Texas. According to a news release from the automotive giant, Toyota Motor…
KTSM News – Fire burning in New Mexico’s Gila now at 11% contain
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Sacaton Fire, burning in the Gila Wilderness, is now reporting progress in its containment at 11 percent, fire officials said. The fire, burning 15 miles east…
Tech Crunch – Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as…