Tampa’s CyberFOX has acquired Timus Networks, adding cloud‑native SASE and zero‑trust access to its MSP‑focused platform after a nine‑figure funding round. The buy aims to simplify security for partners.

Attorneys say more than 160 Florida suits claim website chatbots recorded users without consent, raising steep statutory‑damages risk for companies that use web chat tools.

Col. Bob Hines, named Artemis III's sole backup, has the résumé and training that could put him on the moon on a later Artemis flight.

A state data snapshot shows Florida Poly alumni earn a median $93,600 five years after graduation — the highest among Florida public universities and a win for focused STEM training.

Sunshine Genetics will offer free, opt‑in whole‑genome sequencing to newborns at Tampa General this summer. The state pilot aims to detect hundreds of treatable genetic conditions earlier.

Moffitt is piloting EMMA, an AI-driven lab platform that screens myeloma cells against 31 drugs to speed personalized treatment decisions.

A unanimous DRC vote advances a $25M plan to remake the long-idle St. Petersburg Science Center into an AI hub with classrooms, labs and startup space.

Tampa-based XTEND was invited to Phase II of the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance program and will demo its XOS autonomy at Camp Grayling this summer.

A senior Moffitt scientist stepped down after journals and watchdogs flagged image problems in older papers tied to her earlier work. Reviews are ongoing.

Google has filed with the EPA to test Wolbachia‑treated male mosquitoes in Florida, proposing 16M releases per year for two years to cut disease‑carrying populations.

FDA advisers will vote this week on whether to switch the 2026–27 COVID booster to target XFG, a subvariant with immune‑evasive mutations.

Tampa-based Trace Systems won a 10-year, roughly $1.8B USSOCOM EAGLE‑I award to modernize C2ISR and multi-domain data transport.

Ian and Jean MacKechnie gave $10 million to establish an 8,000-square-foot immunotherapy lab in downtown Tampa and to support a new clinical tower at Tampa General.