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Michael Samples

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DFW Venture Capital Rebounds in Q3, but 2026 Total Still Trails Last Year SMU Summit to Spotlight the Rise of the Chief Innovation Officer Dallas’ Southwest Airlines Launches ChatGPT Plugin to Help Customers Find Flights Patented: Lennox’s Machine-Learning Thermostat Scheduling and 105 More Inventions Across North Texas DFW Beats NYC, Boston and Austin to Claim No. 2 Spot for Value of First-Half Expansion-Stage Exits

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Calendar: Not-to-Miss Events for Innovators in Dallas-Fort Worth

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DFW Venture Capital Rebounds in Q3, but 2026 Total Still Trails Last Year

Dallas-Fort Worth’s venture capital haul in the first nine months of 2026 fell almost 10% short of the same period last year, a new report shows.

On a positive note, though, the third quarter of this year was the fifth-best recorded in PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor’s dataset, which dates back to 2016....

SMU Summit to Spotlight the Rise of the Chief Innovation Officer

Executives from Texas Instruments, Nvidia, AT&T, Lockheed Martin and more than a dozen other companies will speak later this year at a new Southern Methodist University conference focused on how organizations are managing innovation. ...

Dallas’ Southwest Airlines Launches ChatGPT Plugin to Help Customers Find Flights

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines said it just became the first U.S. airline to incorporate flight-shopping capabilities directly into ChatGPT, one of the world’s most popular AI tools.

Southwest’s ChatGPT plugin, which went live Tuesday, lets users search destinations and compare dates, times and fares in a ChatGPT conversation....

Trending

Calendar: Not-to-Miss Events for Innovators in Dallas-Fort Worth

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DFW Venture Capital Rebounds in Q3, but 2026 Total Still Trails Last Year

Dallas-Fort Worth’s venture capital haul in the first nine months of 2026 fell almost 10% short of the same period last year, a new report shows.

On a positive note, though, the third quarter of this year was the fifth-best recorded in PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor’s dataset, which dates back to 2016....

SMU Summit to Spotlight the Rise of the Chief Innovation Officer

Dallas’ Southwest Airlines Launches ChatGPT Plugin to Help Customers Find Flights

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines said it just became the first U.S. airline to incorporate flight-shopping capabilities directly into ChatGPT, one of the world’s most popular AI tools.

Southwest’s ChatGPT plugin, which went live Tuesday, lets users search destinations and compare dates, times and fares in a ChatGPT conversation....

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