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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....

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-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....