Gov. Abbott awarded Tekscend Photomask a $15.2M TSIF grant to expand its Round Rock facility, backing a $223M investment and about 50 local jobs.

The University of Austin has built an applied engineering lab beside Elon Musk’s Bastrop campus; public records and a university post show contractors tied to the Musk complex filed permits.

Penn Medicine's mRNA vaccine stopped allergic reactions in mice — a hopeful development for cedar‑fever sufferers, but human trials and funding shifts could delay its arrival.

UT Austin led the U.S. in NSF-funded research in FY2024, drawing $176.4M and pushing total R&D past $1.14B. The ranking highlights major federal investments on campus.

Dozens of suits tied to Oracle EBS breaches could be centralized in Austin; plaintiffs say negligence exposed millions of people’s data.

An Austin father with ALS says a Neuralink implant restored his ability to move a cursor and type with thought, sparking fresh hope and questions.

TCS will buy Coastal Cloud from Sverica for $700M, bringing 400+ Salesforce specialists into its AI and Salesforce practice.

A Texas A&M entomologist has consulted on roughly 200 criminal cases, using insect life cycles to help investigators narrow timelines and train students.

UT Austin and UTSA students used supercomputers and orbit‑based models to show Segue 1 may host a ~450,000‑solar‑mass black hole — upending assumptions about dark matter in tiny galaxies.

Microsoft and Austin startup Aalo Atomics are piloting generative AI to streamline nuclear permitting for factory-built reactors aimed at data centers.

UT Austin has doubled the computing power of its Center for Generative AI to more than 1,000 GPUs, a move meant to speed model training and scientific research.

Retired Vice Adm. T.J. White is leading Texas Cyber Command from UTSA and centering the agency on hands‑on training to build a Texas cyber workforce.

Dell Technologies made the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Companies to Work For list, highlighting its commitment to employees and the local economy in Round Rock.