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| County | Items | Topics |
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| Travis County | 33 | Surveillance and policing · Research and science · Health and education · State policy · Data centers · Defense and federal |
| Harris County | 32 | Surveillance and policing · Health and education · State policy · Research and science · Defense and federal |
| Brazos County | 14 | Research and science · Data centers · Health and education · Land, water and permitting · Defense and federal · Surveillance and policing |
| Dallas County | 14 | Health and education · Surveillance and policing · Defense and federal · State policy |
| Bexar County | 13 | Research and science · Land, water and permitting · Defense and federal · Health and education · State policy · Data centers |
| El Paso County | 11 | Data centers · Power and the grid · Health and education · Surveillance and policing · Defense and federal · Research and science |
| Williamson County | 9 | Data centers · Surveillance and policing · Defense and federal · Land, water and permitting |
| Galveston County | 8 | Surveillance and policing · Health and education · Defense and federal |
| Hays County | 7 | Land, water and permitting · Research and science · Surveillance and policing · State policy · Defense and federal |
| Tarrant County | 6 | Land, water and permitting · Research and science · Health and education · Defense and federal |
| Denton County | 5 | Data centers · Health and education · Defense and federal · State policy |
| Reeves County | 5 | Power and the grid · State policy · Research and science · Land, water and permitting |
| Brazoria County | 4 | Data centers · Defense and federal |
| Cameron County | 4 | Land, water and permitting · Data centers · Defense and federal |
| Carson County | 4 | Data centers · Land, water and permitting · Defense and federal |
| Comal County | 4 | Defense and federal · Research and science · Data centers · State policy |
| Medina County | 4 | Defense and federal · Research and science · Data centers |
| Montgomery County | 4 | Surveillance and policing · State policy · Defense and federal |
| Tom Green County | 4 | Land, water and permitting · Data centers |
| Fort Bend County | 3 | Defense and federal · Data centers |
| Grimes County | 3 | State policy · Research and science · Defense and federal |
| Howard County | 3 | Power and the grid |
| Lubbock County | 3 | Data centers · Research and science |
| Randall County | 3 | Land, water and permitting · Defense and federal · Research and science |
| Webb County | 3 | Data centers · State policy |
| Armstrong County | 2 | Data centers · Defense and federal |
| Bandera County | 2 | Defense and federal · Research and science |
| Bell County | 2 | Data centers |
| Blanco County | 2 | Land, water and permitting · Defense and federal |
| Collin County | 2 | Defense and federal · State policy |
| Culberson County | 2 | Power and the grid · Research and science |
| Glasscock County | 2 | Power and the grid |
| Guadalupe County | 2 | Surveillance and policing · Defense and federal |
| Hidalgo County | 2 | Surveillance and policing · Health and education |
| Jeff Davis County | 2 | Health and education · Research and science |
| Kerr County | 2 | Defense and federal · Research and science |
| Midland County | 2 | Power and the grid · Land, water and permitting |
| Mitchell County | 2 | Power and the grid · Research and science |
| Nolan County | 2 | Power and the grid · Research and science |
| Potter County | 2 | Land, water and permitting · Defense and federal |
| Somervell County | 2 | Power and the grid |
| Taylor County | 2 | Power and the grid · Land, water and permitting |
| Waller County | 2 | Research and science · Defense and federal |
| Andrews County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Angelina County | 1 | Data centers |
| Archer County | 1 | Data centers |
| Atascosa County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Austin County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Bastrop County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Borden County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Bosque County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Brewster County | 1 | Research and science |
| Briscoe County | 1 | Data centers |
| Brown County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Burleson County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Burnet County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Caldwell County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Callahan County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Chambers County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Coke County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Coleman County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Colorado County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Comanche County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Crockett County | 1 | Research and science |
| Dickens County | 1 | Data centers |
| Eastland County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Ector County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Edwards County | 1 | Research and science |
| Erath County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Fisher County | 1 | Research and science |
| Hamilton County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Henderson County | 1 | Land, water and permitting |
| Hood County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Hudspeth County | 1 | Research and science |
| Hutchinson County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Irion County | 1 | Research and science |
| Jim Hogg County | 1 | Research and science |
| Jones County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Kendall County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Liberty County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Loving County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Martin County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Matagorda County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Moore County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Nueces County | 1 | Data centers |
| Pecos County | 1 | Research and science |
| Presidio County | 1 | Research and science |
| Reagan County | 1 | Research and science |
| Robertson County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Rockwall County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Runnels County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| San Jacinto County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Schleicher County | 1 | Research and science |
| Scurry County | 1 | Research and science |
| Shackelford County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Smith County | 1 | Health and education |
| Starr County | 1 | Research and science |
| Stephens County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Sterling County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Sutton County | 1 | Research and science |
| Terrell County | 1 | Research and science |
| Val Verde County | 1 | Research and science |
| Walker County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Ward County | 1 | Research and science |
| Washington County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Wharton County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Wichita County | 1 | Data centers |
| Wilson County | 1 | Defense and federal |
| Winkler County | 1 | Power and the grid |
| Young County | 1 | Data centers |
| Zapata County | 1 | Research and science |
| Zavala County | 1 | Research and science |
By metropolitan area
| Area | Items | Counties | Kind |
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| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos | 44 | 5 | metropolitan |
| Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands | 41 | 10 | metropolitan |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington | 23 | 5 | metropolitan |
| San Antonio-New Braunfels | 16 | 8 | metropolitan |
| College Station-Bryan | 14 | 3 | metropolitan |
| El Paso | 11 | 2 | metropolitan |
| Amarillo | 6 | 4 | metropolitan |
| San Angelo | 5 | 2 | metropolitan |
| Town of Pecos | 5 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Brownsville-Harlingen | 4 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Big Spring | 3 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Laredo | 3 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Lubbock | 3 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Abilene | 2 | 3 | metropolitan |
| Kerrville | 2 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Killeen-Temple | 2 | 1 | metropolitan |
| McAllen-Edinburg-Mission | 2 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Midland | 2 | 2 | metropolitan |
| Sweetwater | 2 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Wichita Falls | 2 | 2 | metropolitan |
| Andrews | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Athens | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Bay City | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Borger | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Brenham | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Brownwood | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Corpus Christi | 1 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Del Rio | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Dumas | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| El Campo | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Granbury | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Huntsville | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Lufkin | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Odessa | 1 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Rio Grande City-Roma | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Snyder | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Stephenville | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
| Tyler | 1 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Waco | 1 | 1 | metropolitan |
| Zapata | 1 | 1 | micropolitan |
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- takes effectTexas Government Code Chapter 2054 carries three conflicting Subchapter S's on AI, with duplicated section numbers
- takes effectDIR must run an AI regulatory sandbox letting state agencies test systems outside normal rules
- takes effectStatute requires state agencies and local governments to post standardized notice of AI systems
- takes effectTexas requires AI training for state and local government employees, and this is the first annual cycle
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- hearingBrazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on
- orderedBrazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on
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- takes effectHouston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26
- takes effectHomeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge
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- hearingSan Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance
- takes effectSan Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only
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- takes effectSan Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer
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- filedEl Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs
- takes effectSan Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide
- orderedSan Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide
- takes effectSan Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance
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- orderedHays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board
- orderedEl Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs
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- orderedCorpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process
- orderedNational Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments
- filedGrid operator weighs a year's grace for data center cooling equipment on ride-through rules
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- orderedPUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut
- filedPecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted
- signedPecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted
- orderedPUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place
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- hearingLaredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action
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- statutory deadlineWilliamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center
- takes effectNational Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments
- takes effectNSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere
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- filedLeague City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras
- orderedTCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus
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- comment closesPUCT Project 58000, rulemaking to update ERCOT transmission cost recovery, comment deadline reached
- filedEl Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives
- hearingLaredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action
- orderedLeague City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras
- filedTCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791
- orderedFort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent
- orderedPflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence
- orderedNSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores
- filedPflugerville's City Council adopts SAFE standards for how the city uses technology, with facial recognition covered
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- hearingUT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences
- filedTCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled
- hearingA generative AI platform at UTMB reached the UT System Regents only on its third amendment, at $9,850,000, and now covers all seven health institutions
- decidedUT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program
- decidedAustin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence
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- hearingTaylor City Council unanimously approved the amended Compal tax abatement agreement
- orderedTaylor City Council unanimously approved the amended Compal tax abatement agreement
- orderedWichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive
- hearingHouston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading
- orderedConroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot
- orderedNSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior
- orderedUTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason
- decidedUT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes
- filedA statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running
- filedDallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program
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- comment opensTCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses
- decidedNational Science Foundation funds UT San Antonio and Texas A&M to adapt large language models on machines that can't afford to run them
- takes effectState technology agency publishes how it is implementing the four AI laws of the 89th Legislature
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- hearingTemple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center
- hearingYoung County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants
- statutory deadlineConroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot
- hearingTCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791
- decidedNational Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them
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- decidedEl Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives
- hearingEl Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives
- hearingDenton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require
- hearingBrazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy
- filedPUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place
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- hearingTwo Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th
- hearingHouse State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines
- orderedAmazon selects Austin for a factory building the robotics systems used in its warehouses, and the mayor says no incentives were requested
- hearingThe House committee on government efficiency is charged with studying whether the state should use artificial intelligence to find fraud in its own spending
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- hearingPUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027
- hearingGovernor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances
- orderedGovernor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances
- hearingTwo Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th
- hearingHouse Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care
- comment opensPUCT's first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps closed to comment on September 17th
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- hearingPUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties
- hearingPUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027
- hearingPUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties
- filedAustin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one
- comment opensFederal commodities regulator opens comment on trading derivatives whose underlying commodity is compute
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- hearingTCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled
- takes effectThe University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy
- decidedTexas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use
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- hearingSenate Transportation held its August 25th hearing on how driverless vehicles are being deployed under SB 2807
- decidedNational Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin
- decidedThe National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities
- filedTexas A&M scientists use AlphaFold to screen every pairing of human mitochondrial proteins and publish the likely partners free
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- decidedPUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties
- decidedPUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties
- orderedGovernor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras
- decidedUtility commission approves a 765 kilovolt line from Somervell County to Howard County
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- statutory deadlineGovernor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances
- decidedPUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place
- orderedUT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees
- decidedTexas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot
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- takes effectNational Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys
- takes effectNational Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book
- hearingSenate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held both sittings on data center cooling water and published no recommendation
- takes effectNational Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin
- orderedHomeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge
- orderedThe National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin
- orderedEnergy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials
- hearingA Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told
- hearingBrownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them
- decidedNational Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource
- takes effectThe National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities
- hearingHays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court
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- hearingSenate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd
- orderedFrontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026
- filedCase managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day
- filedFederal regulators open an audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab, on the day commercial deployment began in Austin
- orderedThe grid operator tells providers which large loads it has provisionally placed in Batch Zero, and every placement carries a condition
- filedThe grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer
- decidedLeander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data
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- comment closesPUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut
- comment closesPUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027
- orderedNational Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it
- decidedThe board takes a required high school money course to final adoption, and the text it published names AI tools in three of its chapters
- takes effectLeander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data
- filedJustice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data
- decidedA machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first
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- comment closesFederal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey
- hearingDallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program
- hearingLubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails
- filedA data center developer tells its shareholders what the Batch Zero list did to five of its Texas projects, and one came back in a different class than it was filed in
- decidedMemorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results
- filedThe University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors
- hearingHays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance
- filedDallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks
- filedA Houston oil producer buys into an AI vendor and commits its Ward County operations to the vendor's system
- takes effectKodiak and Charger USA start hauling freight between Dallas and Laredo on autonomous trucks with a safety driver behind the wheel
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- filedERCOT starts sending the Batch Zero questionnaires, and a data center that does not answer comes off the list
- comment opensFederal energy department opens comment on securing the grid and names AI as why demand grew, closing October 9th
- comment opensFederal survey office asks whether the household internet survey should start measuring AI use, closing November 9th
- decidedEnergy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation
- decidedScience foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems
- filedTexas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children
- filedAn MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on
- filedHouston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform
- decidedThe National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems
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- filedAmazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers
- filedUT Arlington develops a federally funded AI tutor and tests related technology with Fort Worth police
- takes effectTxDOT starts Project Nexus, a three year state test of next generation aircraft whose first flights carry no passengers
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- hearingPUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027
- orderedThe grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer
- comment opensFAA takes comment until October 11th on letting Zipline fly drone deliveries around the clock over five Texas metros
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- hearingERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing
- filedA three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine
- orderedGovernor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it
- filedGrid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th
- filedUT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees
- hearingERCOT pauses energizing new large data centers and crypto mines until its audit is done
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- takes effectNational Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them
- decidedEl Paso City Council orders Flock plate reader cameras off city property and bars new contracts without a further vote
- hearingEl Paso City Council orders Flock plate reader cameras off city property and bars new contracts without a further vote
- motion passedERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing
- decidedHays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court
- hearingThe Hays County Clerk asks the commissioners court to buy AI that writes the county's official minutes
- decidedEl Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts
- takes effectThe National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems
- decidedThe Fifteenth Court of Appeals leaves Bot Auto free to keep building driverless trucks while TuSimple's successor sues it over trade secrets
- takes effectNational Science Foundation funds Sagebrush, an AI inference platform for researchers nationwide, hosted at UT Austin's supercomputing center
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- comment closesPUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027
- comment closesPUCT's first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps closed to comment on September 17th
- decidedThe National Science Foundation puts Texas Southern University in charge of one of five regional nodes in a new HBCU network for AI and quantum science
- decidedNational Science Foundation makes Texas Southern University one of five regional nodes in an HBCU network for AI and quantum science
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- hearingPUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027
- filedRichardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first
- orderedPUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee
- comment opensJustice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data
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- hearingSenate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd
- orderedLubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails
- filedUTMB puts OpenEvidence's AI answers inside its health record and says more than half of its clinicians use it
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- filedUT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud
- filedUT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server
- filedTexas Children's and Baylor researchers name a likely genetic cause of a rare disorder after an AI tool flagged the gene
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- takes effectFrontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026
- takes effectThe National Science Foundation puts Texas Southern University in charge of one of five regional nodes in a new HBCU network for AI and quantum science
- takes effectNational Science Foundation makes Texas Southern University one of five regional nodes in an HBCU network for AI and quantum science
- decidedState education staff helped Alpha School's AI platform into pilots in Houston, Aldine and Fort Davis
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- takes effectWest Texas A&M wins a USDA grant to build a research feedlot near Canyon that will test feeding, health and handling with AI powered methods
- takes effectFederal trucking regulators let driverless trucks warn traffic with a cab beacon instead of triangles
- decidedExxonMobil says three of its Permian rigs now drill with robotic pipe handling, and about half its Permian fleet will by 2028
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- takes effectPUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee
- decidedTaylor City Council approves an agreement to annex a 664 acre data center campus under written water, setback and noise terms
- hearingTaylor City Council approves an agreement to annex a 664 acre data center campus under written water, setback and noise terms
- filedKodiak and Charger USA start hauling freight between Dallas and Laredo on autonomous trucks with a safety driver behind the wheel
- takes effectUT REAL Health AI signs a systemwide agreement letting UT health institutions use Abridge's ambient note taking
- filedUTEP and El Paso Water test whether a NASA backed AI model can map flooded streets from satellite images after a storm
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- comment closesFederal energy department opens comment on securing the grid and names AI as why demand grew, closing October 9th
- filedAustin Community College drafts what it calls its first AI policy under a five rule framework and opens it to a town hall on October 12th
- decidedFederal trucking regulators let driverless trucks warn traffic with a cab beacon instead of triangles
- takes effectRound Rock says its zoning does not cover drone delivery hubs as Zipline starts flying from one outside city limits
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- administrative deadlineGrid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th
- hearingAustin Community College drafts what it calls its first AI policy under a five rule framework and opens it to a town hall on October 12th
- filedUSDA's Kerrville laboratory builds AI models that pick where, when and how many sterile flies to release against New World screwworm
- decidedPlano's City Council takes up to $390,000 for ChatGPT Enterprise and the Darwin AI platform
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- takes effectRice University sets out to hire 75 faculty working on AI and plans a research building for it in Houston's Ion District
- filedAn MD Anderson AI model reads where T cells gather in tumor tissue, and points at mucin as a wall that may keep them out
- decidedRice University sets out to hire 40 more AI faculty, for 75 this decade, and to take lab space at The Arc in Houston's Ion District
- decidedComptroller bars state grant money from buying or renewing Flock cameras and other license plate readers
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- administrative deadlineGovernor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it
- takes effectWaymo opens its San Antonio robotaxis to anyone with the app, the airport included, while its flood recall remedy is still listed as under development
- decidedLockheed Martin brings Hadrian's 24 machine automated machining cell into its Grand Prairie missile parts plant
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- hearingDallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks
- administrative deadlineGovernor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done
- filedTexas A&M researchers find language models trained on junk social media posts start skipping reasoning steps, and better data doesn't fully fix them
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- comment closesFederal commodities regulator opens comment on trading derivatives whose underlying commodity is compute
- hearingSan Antonio takes two data center zoning proposals to a public hearing on October 20th and a council vote on October 29th
- filedUT Southwestern finds AI triage models moved some emergency patients who later got worse down the line after one stigmatizing detail was added
- takes effectSan Antonio counts loose dogs in 32 study areas with phone cameras and object detection software
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- decidedSan Antonio council requires its own approval for every new data center
- filedTACC retires Frontera after more than eight million jobs, and a UT Southwestern simulation that needed 64 of its CPU nodes runs nearly as fast on eight Vista GPU nodes
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- motion passedERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing
- filedA Sugar Land maker of AI data center optics says its United States expansion is waiting on electrical power
- filedTexas A&M scientists use AlphaFold to screen every pairing of human mitochondrial proteins and publish the likely partners free
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- award expiresGrid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th
- administrative deadlineERCOT pauses energizing new large data centers and crypto mines until its audit is done
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- 2days left to commentCloses November 17th
Justice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data
PUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties
Utilities Code limits how the PUCT may direct ERCOT, and bars verbal directives
PUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027
Temple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center
Taylor City Council unanimously approved the amended Compal tax abatement agreement
Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board
Austin City Council adopted Ordinance 20260423-029 creating City Code Chapter 2-19 on surveillance technology
UT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences
Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center
El Paso City Council adopts a Data Center Policy Framework requiring a Special Permit for hyperscale projects
El Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract
Laredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action
Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center
UT System Board of Regents approves $25 million to finish San Pedro II for UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing
Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive
Young County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants
Archer County Commissioners Court unanimously denies a tax abatement for a Dynamo Ventures data center
Angelina County Commissioners Court adopts Resolution 010-26 asking the Legislature for authority over data centers
Lubbock County Commissioners Court passes a non binding disclosure resolution on large scale industrial development, four to one
Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus
Amarillo City Council authorizes a twenty year water supply agreement selling city water to Fermi America's Project Matador
League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras
Harris County Commissioners Court renewed its Flock Group license plate reader and sound detection contract, then amended it to run county-wide
Corpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process
Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on
Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution stating conditions it wants on data center development
Houston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading
Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot
Texas Water Development Board denied a petition to give data centers their own water demand category and adopted the 2027 State Water Plan the same day
TCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled
TCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791
Tarrant Regional Water District says it has signed no water supply contract for a data center and that the Cedar Creek request was withdrawn
Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District signed a resolution asking the Legislature to clarify district authority over data centers
Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent
San Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance
San Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only
San Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer
Reeves County Emergency Services District No. 2 takes up a Chapter 312 abatement for a gas plant built to run data centers
Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects
Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances
Two Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th
PUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties
Senate Transportation held its August 25th hearing on how driverless vehicles are being deployed under SB 2807
A generative AI platform at UTMB reached the UT System Regents only on its third amendment, at $9,850,000, and now covers all seven health institutions
Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require
Brazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy
The House committee on government efficiency is charged with studying whether the state should use artificial intelligence to find fraud in its own spending
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one
Senate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd
Governor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras
Grid operator weighs a year's grace for data center cooling equipment on ride-through rules
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to amend the land code for data centers
Dallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program
Brownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them
Austin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence
Lubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails
The grid operator sets an October 6th workshop on how it would curtail a large load under Senate Bill 6
El Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts
Richardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first
Dallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks
Judges back El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta only if other customers don't pay
State education staff helped Alpha School's AI platform into pilots in Houston, Aldine and Fort Davis
Austin Community College drafts what it calls its first AI policy under a five rule framework and opens it to a town hall on October 12th
San Antonio takes two data center zoning proposals to a public hearing on October 20th and a council vote on October 29th
SpaceX asks Starbase for a tax abatement on a $24 billion gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility beside Brownsville, with a hearing December 9th
PUCT Project 58000, rulemaking to update ERCOT transmission cost recovery, comment deadline reached
PUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut
TRAIGA in force as Business and Commerce Code Chapter 552, enforceable only by the Attorney General
Texas Government Code Chapter 2054 carries three conflicting Subchapter S's on AI, with duplicated section numbers
DIR must run an AI regulatory sandbox letting state agencies test systems outside normal rules
Comptroller's JETI current agreements list contains no data center project
Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization
Federal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey
Statute requires state agencies and local governments to post standardized notice of AI systems
Williamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center
National Science Foundation names UT El Paso in the first round of CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service awards
Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26
San Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide
TCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses
TCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted
SpaceX will build the Terafab semiconductor plant in Grimes County on a state grant and two school district agreements
Pflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence
House State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines
House Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care
NSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores
NSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior
UTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held both sittings on data center cooling water and published no recommendation
Texas requires AI training for state and local government employees, and this is the first annual cycle
Amazon selects Austin for a factory building the robotics systems used in its warehouses, and the mayor says no incentives were requested
National Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments
National Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys
A statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running
National Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin
PUCT's first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps closed to comment on September 17th
PUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place
State technology agency publishes how it is implementing the four AI laws of the 89th Legislature
Federal commodities regulator opens comment on trading derivatives whose underlying commodity is compute
The Texas A&M System's shared AI supercomputer enters the world list at number 66
Homeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge
The National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin
National Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it
UT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees
Energy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials
The Supreme Court of Texas heard argument on whether a deposition transcript made with AI can stand without a certified court reporter
Frontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026
Texas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use
Texas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot
University of North Texas lists an undergraduate artificial intelligence degree
Federal investigators opened a defect evaluation into a driverless system after crashes in Dallas and Austin
Case managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day
A Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told
National Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource
Federal regulators open an audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab, on the day commercial deployment began in Austin
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud
ERCOT starts sending the Batch Zero questionnaires, and a data center that does not answer comes off the list
Federal energy department opens comment on securing the grid and names AI as why demand grew, closing October 9th
Federal survey office asks whether the household internet survey should start measuring AI use, closing November 9th
El Paso City Council orders Flock plate reader cameras off city property and bars new contracts without a further vote
Energy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation
Science foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems
Texas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children
An MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on
The grid operator tells providers which large loads it has provisionally placed in Batch Zero, and every placement carries a condition
The grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer
A data center developer tells its shareholders what the Batch Zero list did to five of its Texas projects, and one came back in a different class than it was filed in
ERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing
Houston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform
UT Arlington develops a federally funded AI tutor and tests related technology with Fort Worth police
Memorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results
The National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities
The University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors
A three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine
Hays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court
The Hays County Clerk asks the commissioners court to buy AI that writes the county's official minutes
Hays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance
Governor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it
UT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees
Grid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server
The National Science Foundation puts Texas Southern University in charge of one of five regional nodes in a new HBCU network for AI and quantum science
The National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems
Leander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data
A Houston oil producer buys into an AI vendor and commits its Ward County operations to the vendor's system
Governor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done
FAA takes comment until October 11th on letting Zipline fly drone deliveries around the clock over five Texas metros
Texas requires a state authorization to run driverless vehicles commercially, with no fee, no expiry and no crash history asked
College Station City Council votes 4 to 2 to keep its Flock plate reader cameras on state and city roads
PUCT wildfire plan blueprint lists cameras suggested, not required
Asked for AI camera fire detections, Xcel counted cameras
A machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first
Amazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers
Texas Children's and Baylor researchers name a likely genetic cause of a rare disorder after an AI tool flagged the gene
National Science Foundation makes Texas Southern University one of five regional nodes in an HBCU network for AI and quantum science
Kodiak names Interstate 45 from Dallas to Houston as its first driverless truck lane, and says it closes its safety case before the driver comes out
National Science Foundation funds Sagebrush, an AI inference platform for researchers nationwide, hosted at UT Austin's supercomputing center
UT REAL Health AI funds 12 pilot projects that put AI into UT System hospitals and medical schools
ERCOT pauses energizing new large data centers and crypto mines until its audit is done
Saronic breaks ground at the Port of Brownsville on Port Alpha, a shipyard built to make autonomous and crewed ships, on a Cameron County abatement
TxDOT starts Project Nexus, a three year state test of next generation aircraft whose first flights carry no passengers
Volvo and Waabi start hauling a customer's freight between Dallas and Houston on autonomous trucks, with an observer in the driver's seat
West Texas A&M wins a USDA grant to build a research feedlot near Canyon that will test feeding, health and handling with AI powered methods
UTMB puts OpenEvidence's AI answers inside its health record and says more than half of its clinicians use it
Kodiak and Charger USA start hauling freight between Dallas and Laredo on autonomous trucks with a safety driver behind the wheel
UT REAL Health AI signs a systemwide agreement letting UT health institutions use Abridge's ambient note taking
UT San Antonio builds a free training platform where students learn to find the security flaws in code an AI wrote
Federal trucking regulators let driverless trucks warn traffic with a cab beacon instead of triangles
Rice University sets out to hire 75 faculty working on AI and plans a research building for it in Houston's Ion District
Waymo opens its San Antonio robotaxis to anyone with the app, the airport included, while its flood recall remedy is still listed as under development
An MD Anderson AI model reads where T cells gather in tumor tissue, and points at mucin as a wall that may keep them out
USDA's Kerrville laboratory builds AI models that pick where, when and how many sterile flies to release against New World screwworm
The utility commission sues the Attorney General to keep the county and water planning area of each surveyed data center from release
Google.org funds a UT Austin team to build AI surrogate models for testing fusion reactor designs
Houston Methodist ties camera AI in 15 cardiothoracic surgery rooms to about 25 more cases a month, and says it can't prove the cameras caused it
Texas A&M researchers find language models trained on junk social media posts start skipping reasoning steps, and better data doesn't fully fix them
Rice University sets out to hire 40 more AI faculty, for 75 this decade, and to take lab space at The Arc in Houston's Ion District
Lockheed Martin brings Hadrian's 24 machine automated machining cell into its Grand Prairie missile parts plant
Comptroller bars state grant money from buying or renewing Flock cameras and other license plate readers
UTEP and El Paso Water test whether a NASA backed AI model can map flooded streets from satellite images after a storm
UT Southwestern finds AI triage models moved some emergency patients who later got worse down the line after one stigmatizing detail was added
Texas A&M takes a $2 million WoodNext Foundation grant to build the Aggie AI Foundry, where AI and robots would design and test new metal alloys
A UT Austin dance and engineering team wins an award to build an AI model that learns from recorded human movement
Round Rock says its zoning does not cover drone delivery hubs as Zipline starts flying from one outside city limits
Soluna and Applied Digital agree to build an AI data center beside the Briscoe Wind Farm, if Briscoe County grants a tax abatement
Plano's City Council takes up to $390,000 for ChatGPT Enterprise and the Darwin AI platform
Pflugerville's City Council adopts SAFE standards for how the city uses technology, with facial recognition covered
San Antonio counts loose dogs in 32 study areas with phone cameras and object detection software
San Antonio council requires its own approval for every new data center
Aurora tells shareholders its driverless trucks will run straight to customer sites in November, with its truck build about six weeks behind plan
Permian Resources tells investors it now runs an AI system that watches its artificial lift
A Sugar Land maker of AI data center optics says its United States expansion is waiting on electrical power
ExxonMobil says three of its Permian rigs now drill with robotic pipe handling, and about half its Permian fleet will by 2028
Texas A&M builds a language model that sorts disaster posts for emergency managers, and it has not yet been used in a live disaster
Texas A&M scientists use AlphaFold to screen every pairing of human mitochondrial proteins and publish the likely partners free
TACC retires Frontera after more than eight million jobs, and a UT Southwestern simulation that needed 64 of its CPU nodes runs nearly as fast on eight Vista GPU nodes
The state's chip fund gives Texas Tech over $19 million for an AI computing cluster in Lubbock that is meant to speed up semiconductor research
Texas 2036 finds AI in most Texas classrooms and a written AI policy in few districts, and asks the state for guidance
TRAIGA preempts city and county regulation of artificial intelligence
El Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives
National Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book
National Science Foundation funds UT San Antonio and Texas A&M to adapt large language models on machines that can't afford to run them
National Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them
UT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program
NSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere
The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines
UT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes
Houston Methodist put an imaging AI in front of its radiologists and says out loud that it is imperfect
Four Texas campuses took roles in the Energy Department's AI for science program
UT Southwestern says AI now does most of the grading on its medical students' clinical exam notes
Utility commission approves a 765 kilovolt line from Somervell County to Howard County
The University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy
The board takes a required high school money course to final adoption, and the text it published names AI tools in three of its chapters
PUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee
The Fifteenth Court of Appeals leaves Bot Auto free to keep building driverless trucks while TuSimple's successor sues it over trade secrets
Taylor City Council approves an agreement to annex a 664 acre data center campus under written water, setback and noise terms
Tesla's own capacity table puts the Cybercab in production in Texas and lists the Texas Optimus robot line as still under construction