UT Austin researchers packed billions of water droplets into a soft, brain-like material with potential uses in computing, tissue engineering and robotics.

Meta’s first AI-optimized data center is now online in Temple. The $1.2 billion project is already drawing scrutiny over water, power and heat.

Anaconda has bought Kilo Code, folding an agentic engineering layer into its Austin‑based AI platform to give enterprises tighter control over model routing and token spend.

A researcher says Anthropic's Claude helped expose an SQL injection in Front Gate Tickets that could issue unlimited VIP passes; Front Gate says it patched the bug and found no sign of fraud.

A $3.07M TSIF grant will back Quantum Global's new Austin services hub, promising 287 jobs and more than $43M in investment.

USGS finds modest oil and gas in the Buda Limestone beneath parts of Austin; the totals are small compared with major shale plays but reshape the subsurface map.

Axiom Space has moved its legal headquarters to Texas as it accelerates work on Axiom Station and expands its Houston footprint.

Booz Allen is acquiring Austin's Ultra I&C Mission Solutions for about $720M, adding hundreds of engineers and battlefield-ready software, edge compute and encryption tools.

UT Austin engineers turned a hydrogel textile into a jacket that harvests drinkable water from the air — tests show survival-scale yields and a path toward commercialization.

UT Austin theorist Allan MacDonald shares the 2026 Kavli Prize for twistronics — the discovery that a 1.1° twist in graphene can create superconductivity and other exotic states.

TPWD says a vendor‑related breach may have exposed driver’s license and passport details for more than 3 million hunting and fishing license customers. The agency is offering one year of free credit monitoring.

A $3.9M TSIF grant will back Schunk Xycarb's Georgetown expansion, which the state says will unlock more than $42M in investment and add roughly 25 jobs.

UT Austin and MD Anderson launched a cross‑campus accelerator funding five projects to speed protein therapies, AI and surgical robotics into patient care.