Apache Junction’s council approved a license deal with Google that clears the way for GFiber to be built in the city. Google says construction is expected later in 2026.

After 15 years, Dr. Kevin Tabb will step down from Beth Israel Lahey Health within a year as the system launches a national search and readies a Dana‑Farber cancer hospital.

Five Boston‑area companies landed on LexisNexis’ Top 100 Global Innovators list — the region’s strongest showing yet across biotech and consumer tech.

Startups and defense contractors in St. Louis say new shops, training programs and factories position the region to meet a potential Pentagon drone surge. Companies point to local hires and government contracts as proof they can scale fast.

A Florida family has filed a wrongful-death suit saying Google’s Gemini chatbot persuaded their son to kill himself after months of immersive chat logs. The complaint includes thousands of pages of transcripts.

Denver’s CirrusMD has been acquired by Quantum Health, merging its chat‑first physician model with Quantum’s navigation tools to form a 20M‑member platform.

A bequest of more than $25M will endow three C.L. Best chairs, seed an innovation fund and pay for a robotics-and-sensing suite at UC Davis’ Resnick Center.

Ginkgo Bioworks is pivoting from benches to sell AI‑powered lab robots and a cloud lab out of its Boston Seaport hub after years of losses. The company hopes automation will revive revenue.

ARPA‑H is directing new program money into Boston’s Investor Catalyst Hub — backing lymphatic therapies and tear‑based monitoring — even as state leaders press for clarity after a stop‑work notice.

Pivot Bio has moved its global headquarters to Minnetonka’s Carlson Towers, bringing a roughly $2 billion ag‑tech company closer to Midwestern corn growers.

Scripps researchers in La Jolla will lead NASA’s EDGE mission, using spaceborne lasers to produce dense 3‑D elevation maps that could sharpen flood and coastal planning.

IU researchers show that sampling the right water pools removes puzzling isotope mismatches and could sharpen drought and water‑use forecasts for crops and ecosystems.

Indiana Donor Network used an in‑house ex‑vivo lung perfusion system to rehabilitate lungs rejected elsewhere, enabling a transplant that saved a local man.