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Dr. Sulman Ahmed. founder, chairman and CEO of DECA Dental Group [Image sources: DECA Dental, istockphoto, DI Studio]

The Last Word: CEO Behind Blackstone-Backed Dental Venture Has a Message for Founders

by | Apr 28, 2026
The DECA Dental founder returned to his alma mater to keynote UT Dallas' record-breaking Draper Pitch Competition. He told student founders what it really takes.
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Jeb Hensarling [Photo: Grant Miller Photograhy/Venture Dallas]
The Last Word: TXSE’s Jeb Hensarling on a $300M War Chest, ARK Listings, and a ‘Transfer Portal’ Flowing to Texas
by | Apr 23, 2026
In a Bloomberg interview with Julie Fine, the former congressman laid out TXSE's timeline: trading this summer, listings in Q4, and first IPOs in Q1 2027.
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The Last Word: Cuban on His ’80s Deep Ellum Days and Throwing ‘Epic Parties’ in a Chuck E. Cheese Storage Space
by | Apr 21, 2026
Mark Cuban, Billy Bob Thornton, and 1980s Deep Ellum denizens appear in "Round Pegs Square Holes," a documentary screening at the 2026 Dallas International Film Festival.
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The Last Word: DLA Piper’s Danny Tobey on the Shift From Chatbot AI to Agentic AI
by | Apr 16, 2026

“The old human-in-the-loop rules really don’t work as well when you’re looking at ubiquitous, automated AI agents that are acting 24/7 as digital workers.”

Danny Tobey, M.D., J.D.
Chair, AI and Data Analytics
DLA Piper
…speaking at Convergence AI Dallas on March 31

We’re moving “from an era of chatbot AI, where there is always a human at the receiving end of recommendations, to agentic and physical AI,” a world, Danny Tobey said, where AI “takes actions and makes decisions on behalf of humans” and “does so in ways that don’t always stop for human intervention, permission and understanding.”...

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One way Dallas' new poet laureate Kristoddie Woods, known as Black Ceasar, reaches audiences is through his TikTok account. He recently invited them to vote on their favorite slide, including this one, in an "Urban Cowboy x Poet" series. [Screenshot: Ceasar's Poetry Corner/TikTok]

The Last Word: Dallas’ New Poet Laureate Kristoddie Woods—aka Black Ceasar—on Turning Readers Into Poets

by | Apr 14, 2026
Dallas' third poet laureate Kristoddie Woods steps in alongside youth poet laureate Cadence Diggs, a 17-year-old Booker T. Washington High School student, for a two-year term.
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The Last Word: Mark Cuban on AI—and 6 More Takeaways From His Dallas Talk
by | Apr 8, 2026
Cuban didn’t hold back at Convergence AI Dallas, where his onstage conversation with Alex Kantrowitz delivered blunt advice and unfiltered insights.
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The Last Word: Pharma Is the ‘Only Product in the World’ That Needs Government Approval of Its Name, Brand Institute Exec Says
by | Mar 26, 2026
A new BioNTX podcast digs into the regulatory gauntlet behind drug naming — and why biotech startups shouldn't wait to think about it.
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The Last Word: Micron VP On Why Richardson Students Are ‘a Direct Part of Our Industry’s Future’
by | Mar 18, 2026
A $96,500 Micron Foundation grant is bringing robotics, coding and AI-ready tools to Richardson ISD elementary classrooms.
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