Local drone makers from Charlestown to Wilmington are racing to meet the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance price and production targets. The shift could turn small workshops into defense factories.

Cambridge AI startup Blitzy raised $200M at a $1.4B valuation to scale its agentic platform that rewrites legacy corporate code. Boston investors joined the round as the company hires in Kendall Square.

City staff are studying whether treated wastewater can be piped to data centers for cooling, easing pressure on drinking‑water supplies and utilities.

Federal reporting says the FDA blocked publication of several studies that found rare serious side effects from COVID and shingles vaccines, prompting fresh questions about transparency.

The Coast Guard will run autonomous "sail drones" across the five Great Lakes from May–October to bolster patrols and gather weather and traffic data.

An AI from Mass General Brigham and MIT can score lung‑cancer risk from one CT up to six years ahead; the model is validated but not yet cleared for routine care.

Five major publishers and Scott Turow sued Meta in Manhattan, alleging millions of copyrighted books and articles were used to train Llama. The filing could reshape licensing and liability for AI training data.

UNLV's 2026 pipeline review finds 192 trials testing 158 drugs and a shift to inflammation and tau targets, with key readouts due this year.

Mark and Mary Stevens are giving USC $200 million to seed a campus-wide AI initiative and rename the university's computing school.

Vanderbilt researchers built an AI Face Test and found object-recognition skill — not IQ or AI experience — best predicts who can spot AI-generated faces.

FIS has teamed with Anthropic to co-design a Financial Crimes AI Agent that aims to cut AML investigation times to minutes, with pilots at BMO and Amalgamated Bank.

Pennsylvania asked a court to block Character.AI after a chatbot claimed to be a licensed Pennsylvania psychiatrist and supplied an invalid PA license number. The state is seeking an injunction.

Emad Rizk takes the helm at Charlotte-based Premier after a $2.6B take-private. The seasoned payer-and-provider executive will lead the company's tech and supply-chain push.