A new AI from Cleveland Clinic and Carnegie Mellon can read cardiac MRIs with near‑clinical accuracy. Researchers say it could speed long, specialist reads and widen access.

SDG&E, Qualcomm and UC San Diego’s Scripps launched Edge Alert Sentinel — an on‑site AI pilot on Palomar Mountain to flag wildfire and extreme‑weather risks faster. The first unit will be evaluated during the PSPS season and could scale regionally in 2027.

Scott Strazik’s Cambridge HQ bet is turning into interns, hires and research money as data‑center demand lifts GE Vernova.

UT Austin will lead the NNME South node, convening 104 partners and industry-backed training to prepare technicians and engineers for thousands of chip jobs across 10 states.

Cambridge's City Therapeutics raised $99.5M in a Series B to accelerate its RNAi pipeline toward human testing and expand Kendall Square labs.

An MIT‑linked effort called Mice Against Ticks would release immune mice on Nantucket to interrupt the Lyme cycle. Lab results push the idea forward even as residents weigh ecological risks.

N.C. A&T won approval to offer a Ph.D. in bioengineering — the first standalone doctorate of its kind at an HBCU — as the university pushes toward Carnegie R1 status.

Chicago buyout firm Thoma Bravo agreed to take Limerick‑based Kneat private in an all‑cash deal valuing the life‑sciences validation software maker at about C$650M.

Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace will deliver four propulsive drones to the Moon’s south pole under a $75M JPL subcontract, stepping into NASA's Moon Base plans.

A UTEP analysis of NIH All of Us data found GLP‑1 drugs like Ozempic were linked to sharply lower odds of several substance‑use disorders, but authors say trials are needed.

Meta says a flaw in its AI account‑recovery tool let attackers reset passwords and hijack 20,225 Instagram accounts; high‑profile handles were briefly taken. The company has disabled the tool and is securing impacted users.

Avenzo will go public via a reverse merger with Rallybio, backed by a $215M financing and expected to trade as AVZO. The deal funds multiple clinical readouts through 2028.

A pre-dawn Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral as booster B1067 completed a record 35th flight and landed on the droneship. The flight pushed the Space Coast’s busy 2026 manifest higher.