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Mavenir Names Nokia Veteran to Lead Expansion in AI Cloud Market

by | Aug 13, 2026
Jitin Bhandari will lead the Richardson company’s move into a new class of cloud providers that rent out the specialized chips powering artificial intelligence.
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Pokeworks Seeks DFW Expansion
by | Jul 14, 2026
The fast-casual poke chain considers North Texas ‘incredibly welcoming’
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Inside Augustus: The Thiel-Backed ‘Bank Made of Code’ Nearing a National Charter From Dallas
by | Jun 24, 2026
The prospect of building a bank for the AI era from scratch was enough to pull Greg Quarles from the top job at another bank. Now the veteran regulator and three-time bank CEO explains why he joined the upstart reinventing how money moves—and the 25-year-old founder he calls “the brightest guy I’ve ever met.”
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Dallas Jumps to No. 27 Among the World’s Startup Ecosystems
by | Jun 23, 2026
An 11-place climb in the 2026 Global Startup Ecosystem Report puts the Dallas ecosystem among North America’s fastest risers, alongside fellow Texas hub Austin.
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Dallas Anchors DFW’s 49 Fortune 1000 Headquarters, Spread Across 11 Cities

by | Jun 9, 2026
Dallas holds 21 of the region's 49 Fortune 1000 headquarters, with the rest fanning out from Irving and Plano to Frisco and Fort Worth. "Growth is happening in every direction," Dallas Regional Chamber CEO Brad Cheves says.
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How One Dallas-Fort Worth Healthcare Innovator Is Scaling ‘AI on Top of AI’
by | Apr 9, 2026
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation CEO Steve Miff shares approach to transparency in its prediction models.
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Mark Cuban: CEOs Who Don’t Embrace AI Won’t Be CEOs for Long
by | Apr 8, 2026
Mark Cuban has a message for any CEO still treating artificial intelligence as something to dabble in: You’re going to be left behind.
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A New Professional Hub Is Coming to Dallas: Kiln to Launch Two Premium Workspaces in Preston Hollow and Plano
by | Apr 2, 2026
The premium flexible workspace brand aims to bring founders, executives, and high-growth teams into a shared professional community.
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NASA Invests $750K in UTA Materials Research to Improve Advanced Air Mobility Safety

by | Feb 10, 2026
The grant supports development of reusable, impact-resistant materials designed to withstand frequent landings and collision events in next-generation aircraft—everything from air taxis to the flying cars of the future.
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North Texas’ EnLiSense Develops Wearable Sensor That Uses Sweat to Track Sleep Hormones
by | Feb 3, 2026
A UT Dallas study supports Allen-based EnLiSense’s approach to circadian health monitoring, via a wearable that directly measures biochemical markers tied to wakefulness and sleep.
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UT Southwestern Secures Up to $25M ARPA‑H Award to Bioengineer Artificial Livers
by | Jan 13, 2026
The project, known as Vascularized Immunocompetent Tissue as an Alternative Liver, or VITAL, aims to "biofabricate" functioning livers using patients' own cells and advanced 3D printing techniques.
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UT Dallas’ WindSTAR Secures NSF Grant To Advance AI-Driven Wind Energy Research
by | Dec 29, 2025
A five-year NSF award to the Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology, and Research supports new work using AI to reduce turbine defects, improve reliability, and strengthen the U.S. energy grid.
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UT Southwestern Research Findings on Inflammatory Cell Death Could Lead to New Treatments for Sepsis, Crohn’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Cancer

by | Dec 22, 2025
The discovery of a protein tied to necroptosis—a type of cell death—could help fight severe infections and inflammation.
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TCU Launches $10M AI² Initiative With Dell to Scale Campuswide Use
by | Dec 13, 2025
AI² supports large-scale research and interdisciplinary work across the university as TCU pushes toward R1 status.
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Tech Mahindra Expands North Texas Presence With UT Dallas AI Partnership and Makers Lab
by | Dec 10, 2025
After opening its Americas HQ in Plano earlier this year, Tech Mahindra is now launching its first U.S. Makers Lab at its Plano facility through a new applied AI partnership with UT Dallas.
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CPRIT Awards Grants to 15 Dallas-Fort Worth Researchers in Latest Funding Round
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas offers funding opportunities for promising cancer research, product development, and prevention programs. The state-funded initiative stands as the second-largest public backer of cancer research in the U.S. after the National Cancer Institute.
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