St. Charles-based D2 Solutions bought Florida’s ProModRx and says the acquisition will expand its UltraTouch offerings — and nearly double hiring in St. Charles.

A Manhattan judge denied Bayer's bid to block Johnson & Johnson ads claiming Erleada halves the risk of death versus Nubeqa, leaving the Lanham Act suit to play out in court.

Sidus Space and St. Petersburg's Lonestar Data Holdings amended a roughly $120M collaboration to add another StarVault orbital data vault, pushing commercial backups farther from Earth.

Franciscan Alliance is moving to build an osteopathic medical school in Crown Point, with leadership roles posted and campus work already under way.

Two recent acquisitions and state programs show Hawaii is keeping tech talent and building startups at home.

Denver’s Voyager will lead a private ISS trip, VOYG‑1, that NASA says could test habitat tech for a moon base. The mission is targeted no earlier than 2028 and could spend up to two weeks aboard the station.

U of I and IBM renewed the Discovery Accelerator Institute to expand AI, quantum and supercomputing research across Illinois with new projects and student externships.

The Cancer Center at Illinois earned a rare National Cancer Institute designation in April 2026, joining a small group of lab-focused centers. The status could unlock federal infrastructure support and translational partnerships for Illinois.

An August Starlink outage left unmanned Navy vessels offline for nearly an hour, exposing risks as the Pentagon leans more on SpaceX's satellites.

Skild AI bought Zebra’s warehouse robotics unit, folding the Symmetry Fulfillment platform into its Skild Brain to accelerate mixed‑fleet automation.

Pafford has rolled out a Low Titer O whole-blood program for EMS across western Oklahoma, and a May 6 blood drive at its OKC headquarters seeks Type O donors.

Siemens Energy opened a Grid AI Lab at its Orlando Innovation Center to run AI on grid data, testing tools that could speed storm recovery and raise usable capacity. Local utilities will take part in pilots as the company says the lab is part of a $1 billion U.S. expansion.

Meta is testing a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg at its Menlo Park campus that could speak for the CEO — and some employees are uneasy.