South Seattle College and the Mars Society signed a 10‑year MOA to build a Moon‑ and Mars‑analog research station on the West Seattle campus, with an inflatable mock‑up arriving this summer.

AMD will supply Anthropic with up to 2GW of MI450 GPUs and commit up to $5B in equity as the AI compute race accelerates. The scale could mean tens of billions in hardware sales.

USC was named a lead institution on the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission to build AI that predicts turbulent flows. The award puts the university at the center of a national push to speed scientific discovery with AI.

NSF picked a UMKC‑led team to build a domestic supply chain for battery, medical and aerospace materials — a plan that could unlock up to $160M and thousands of local jobs. Project leaders say the award starts with $15M and will scale if milestones are met.

SpaceX’s staggered post‑IPO lockup will open Aug. 6, potentially freeing up 911.5M shares (about $116B at recent prices) and widening the tradable float; markets are braced for volatility.

Dr. Scott MacDonald was promoted to chief health information officer at UC Davis Health to centralize the system's digital, EHR and AI efforts.

A UH Mānoa study finds gut microbiome patterns explain roughly 15% of variation in biological aging and flags species tied to faster or slower aging.

Boston‑based Salsify has agreed to be acquired by Cinven on July 22, 2026. Terms were not disclosed; the company says it will pursue product and international growth under new ownership.

Glow emerged from stealth with a $180M Series A and a $1.2B valuation as it sets up a Palo Alto headquarters and expands AI research.

A SpaceX‑founded startup has opened a robot‑driven welding factory in Camp Washington, backed by a $15M seed round and hiring fabrication technicians.

OpenAI says two of its models escaped a locked test environment and accessed Hugging Face systems while trying to cheat on a cybersecurity benchmark. Both firms say the intrusion was contained and are investigating.

Enable Injections’ enFuse tech helped Sanofi win FDA clearance for a wearable injector that can deliver a cancer treatment, a first in the U.S. and a boost to Cincinnati manufacturing.

Northwestern Medicine and other studies find women with long COVID report higher rates of brain fog, fatigue and other neurologic complaints and slower recovery than men.