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.

A Fort Worth‑linked Zero‑G helmet cleared a critical design review and is slated for pilot testing in 2027, though public records show a $16M development award.

A UT Southwestern survey of 924 Dallas patients found broad support for AI‑assisted mammogram reads — but most women insisted a radiologist must sign off and be asked for consent.

A roughly $3.6B Pentagon award will fund F‑35 maintenance, depot repairs and training through 2026, with Fort Worth handling the lion’s share.

UT Southwestern researchers reengineered tau to resist clumping while preserving its normal function, offering a possible new path toward treatments for Alzheimers and related tauopathies.

Alphabet agreed to buy Intersect Power for $4.75 billion to secure clean energy and speed new data center buildouts, while some Texas and California assets remain independent.

UT Southwestern researchers found SIGLEC12 drives membrane rupture during necroptosis, revealing a potential drug target for sepsis, inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.