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The Chief Innovation Officer Summit is set for Dec. 11. [Image: SMU, DI Studio]
SMU Summit to Spotlight the Rise of the Chief Innovation Officer
by Lauren Lawley Head | Oct 8, 2026
The Dec. 11 event will feature more than two dozen speakers from companies such as Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar and Toyota North America. Organizers plan to make it an annual forum focusing on innovation strategy as the CInO role continues to grow.
by Sandra Engelland |
Jul 21, 2026
The advanced manufacturing facility will assemble and test NVIDIA AI systems. It represents a $761 million investment and will employ close to 1,000 people by the end of the year.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Mar 17, 2026
Created using the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX blueprint, Jacobs' solution combines a standard reference design for a gigawatt-scale AI data center with a hyper-realistic virtual environment and advanced simulations of compute, power, and cooling systems to operate as "a real-time virtual twin."
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by David Seeley |
Mar 5, 2026
By fusing camera and radar data, a new solution from Texas Instruments and NVIDIA improves humanoid robots' object detection, localization, and tracking while reducing false positives for confident, real-time decision-making, TI said.
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Boston Dynamics' Atlas won CNET Group's 'Best Robot' award at CES 2026. The humanoid debuted at Hyundai Motor Group's media conference as part of the automaker's AI robotics strategy to lead the physical AI era. Atlas is slated for deployment at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America by 2028, with global expansion planned by 2030. [Photo: Hyundai Motor Group]
The Last Word: A Dallas AI Entrepreneur’s Take on Robotics’ ‘ChatGPT Moment’ at CES 2026
by Quincy Preston | Jan 14, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared it "the ChatGPT moment for robotics," Worlds CEO Dave Copps says. But all those dancing, boxing, laundry-folding bots? They're only as smart as the environments they operate in.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 29, 2025
Plano’s KYRO AI is the only Texas technology company in EPRI’s Open Power AI Consortium, joining tech leaders and utilities working to develop open-source AI models for the power sector. The effort is backed by major energy companies, including Exelon, whose CEO recently warned the grid’s “check engine light is on” as electricity demand surges.
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by Maddie Preston |
Dec 13, 2025
AI² supports large-scale research and interdisciplinary work across the university as TCU pushes toward R1 status.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 24, 2025
Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—said many companies are demanding that their technology vendors remove the burden of "DIY security" by delivering pre-validated and co-engineered security and infrastructure offerings.
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Rendering of LiquidStack's GigaModular CDU. [Image: LiquidStack]
North Texas’ LiquidStack Unveils ‘GigaModular’ Coolant Distribution Unit at French Trade Show
by Lance Murray | Jun 3, 2025
The demanding nature of AI workloads is pushing data center thermal management requirements to "unprecedented heights," Carrollton-based LiquidStack said. The company's new GigaModular CDU aims to chill things out with up to 10MW of scalable cooling capacity.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Apr 30, 2025
Dallas Innovates, in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber, once again is recognizing the most innovative leaders in AI in Dallas-Fort Worth. From visionaries and mavericks to transformers and academics, AI 75's class of 2025 are the AI pacesetters you need to know now.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 15, 2025
NVIDIA's Taiwan-based manufacturing partners, including Wistron in North Texas and Foxconn in Houston, will build plants to produce the first NVIDIA AI supercomputers ever to be built entirely in the U.S. The goal: powering a new generation of AI data centers while "hardening supply chain resilience."
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Jan 21, 2025
D CEO and Dallas Innovates' Innovation Award winners are working to resurrect extinct species, launching autonomous trucks, reinventing military aircraft, and bringing AI into the physical world—and that's just the beginning. The 2025 awards showcase game-changing achievements—including Texas' first newly minted decacorn—across 17 categories of innovation. Here’s a look at the innovators leading the way.
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Texas Establishes Landmark Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council
by Quincy Preston | Jul 18, 2023
The new seven-member council will help "cement Texas’ position as a national leader in innovative technology," said Governor Abbott, who signed the bill creating the committee last month.
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by David Seeley |
May 16, 2023
Some things you just gotta keep cool: your temper on the Tollway at 8:45 a.m., your drink after work, and—maybe we should've put this first—data centers. All those endless rows of servers generate heat, which is why cooling accounts for nearly half of a data center's electricity usage. Now a team led by UT Arlington's Dereje Agonafer is developing hybrid cooling technology that could save "a massive amount of money in energy costs" for both current and future servers.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Feb 16, 2023
North Texas universities are gearing up for the AI revolution, readying students for the jobs of tomorrow. Here's a look at what's happening at SMU, TCU, the University of North Texas, UT Arlington, and UT Dallas, as published in our annual 2023 Dallas Innovates magazine.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 7, 2023
OVA is a pioneer in AI-enabled immersive software technology development. It works with industry leaders from around the world who are looking to transform their business with spatial and immersive computing, AI, augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality.
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