The FTC says OkCupid shared nearly 3 million user photos with AI firm Clarifai in 2014; Match Group agreed to a proposed settlement in Dallas that would bar future misrepresentations.

Microsoft will add two 'AI factory' buildings and a 900 MW power plant to Crusoe's Abilene campus after OpenAI stepped back, raising fresh questions about power and local impacts.

Verily landed a Series X‑led $300M investment that reduces Alphabet to a minority owner and turns the company into Verily Health Inc., accelerating its push to commercialize AI health tools.

A 20i survey finds Texas web designers report more pay satisfaction than peers on the coasts, even with lower average salaries. Cost of living and career stage appear to matter more than raw dollars.

Lyda Hill-backed Learning Voyages will fund spring STEM trips for more than 48,000 Dallas ISD students, covering buses, admissions and curriculum-aligned programming.

UT Austin researchers built a near-atomic map of the Andes hantavirus and produced a vaccine candidate that triggered neutralizing antibodies in mice.

UT Arlington and Cook Children’s have launched a new pediatric brain center to push imaging, robotics and AI from the lab into care for epilepsy, cerebral palsy and autism.

UT Dallas scored a $4M Department of Education grant to partner with Uplift Education and teach AI literacy to North Texas high‑schoolers over the next four years.

UT Arlington opened a Center for Space Physics and Data Science backed by a $1.5M NSF award; the center adds a bachelor’s and a fast‑track master’s and links students to the region’s aerospace employers.

Coherent secured a $14.08M TSIF award to ramp six‑inch indium phosphide wafer production in Sherman, Texas. The project is tied to more than $154M in planned investment.

Fort Worth startup Element3 says it will extract battery‑grade lithium from Permian produced water at a Midland plant, a move that could revive U.S. lithium production. Local reporting and company releases say commercial units will be installed in early 2026.

Texas Instruments will buy Austin-based Silicon Labs for $231 a share in a $7.5B cash deal that folds the wireless‑chip maker into TI’s U.S. manufacturing network. Closing is expected in the first half of 2027.

ERCOT's new 'batch' interconnection plan could put about 8.2 GW of approved data‑center load back under review, forcing clearer timelines and staged commitments.