The board that hands out Texas's space grants will vote Sept. 23 on setting aside part of a $450 million state fund for something it has never spent the money on — helping land a major NASA or Defense Department facility in Texas.
The council that runs shared computer systems for ten Texas health licensing boards meets Sept. 21 to review the unfinished half of a network overhaul ordered after a 2024 ransomware attack spread from one small board across the system and carried data out with it.
Governor Greg Abbott created a leadership team to press Texas’ case as the permanent home of the United States Space Academy, naming state Rep. Greg Bonnen, M.D., of Friendswood, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, to lead it, his office said in a Sept. 15 news release.
Texas would bar a behavior analyst from letting artificial intelligence help write a child’s therapy plan unless the family signed off first — and would forbid the analyst from ever letting the software make the call alone.
Meta will give away Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to blind veterans at an Austin VFW post on Friday, marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with an event that pairs the free devices with hands-on training, the company said.The Austin giveaway is part of a broader Meta effort to donate free AI glasses to every blind veteran in the country.
Governor Greg Abbott toured the TEL Texas Technical Training and Research & Development Center in Austin on Monday and led a roundtable with students and business leaders on how industry-led training programs are preparing Texans for high-demand semiconductor careers.
The board that governs the Texas Department of Information Resources will meet Aug. 27 to approve the agency's 2027 budget and the fees it charges — but the item is written to take effect only if state budget writers let the agency carry over money left in its Texas.gov accounts at the end of this year.
The state office distributing more than $5 billion in broadband money arrived at the Capitol on Aug. 18 with two fired directors behind it, a state auditor's investigation ahead of it and a new manager who did not defend the record.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced that SpaceX will construct a vertically integrated semiconductor fabrication plant in Grimes County, a first-phase capital investment of more than $16.8 billion that is expected to create 3,000 new jobs, according to an Aug. 6 news release from the governor's office.
Brandon Creighton spent two decades in the Texas Legislature writing the rules for higher education.