Viven’s seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices
Liberate’s AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 “at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.” Read more:…
KTSM News – Docs: Mother shot at least 11 times by son in Santa Teresa
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 20-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly shot his mother at least 11 times on early Monday morning, Oct. 13, in Santa Teresa, according to court…
KTSM News – Teen shoots friend in back during planned robbery in Las Cruces, court docs say
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — An 18-year-old is facing charges after shooting his 15-year-old friend in the back as they were planning on stealing firearms from a home this past Monday, Oct….
KTSM News – Meta to invests $1.5 billion for El Paso AI data center
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Facebook’s parent company, Meta is going to be building a new artificial intelligence center in El Paso. The announcement to bring the nearly 1.2 million square feet…
Tech Crunch – Self-driving car companies Pony.ai and WeRide get the OK for Hong Kong listing
The Chinese AV companies are already traded on the Nasdaq. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts
Semiconductor firm Arm is partnering with Meta to enhance the social media company’s AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft
Nscale plans to deploy the chips over the next few years to three data centers in Europe and a fourth in the U.S. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – Meta to build $1.5 billion data center in Northeast El Paso
Technology giant Meta Platforms is investing $1.5 billion to build a data center that will employ 100 workers on a 1,000-acre parcel in far Northeast El Paso near the Texas-New Mexico state…