Dee and Jimmy Haslam pledged $12.5 million to accelerate CLL and rare blood‑cancer research, sending $10M to the Oxford‑Harrington centre and $2.5M to UH Seidman.

Ohio State is pitching a skyline-scale "tech tower" visible from State Route 315 that leaders say will centralize labs and speed student startups into business. University officials call it a way to make the campus a hands-on R&D partner for Ohio companies.

Apple agreed to a $250 million settlement over delayed Siri AI features; court filings suggest modest per‑device payments and a claims process if a judge approves.

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.