Research and science

• Federal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey

  Research and scienceUnited States Bureau of Labor StatisticsStatewideComment window closed

• UT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas System Board of RegentsTravisPublic meeting

• UT System Board of Regents approves $25 million to finish San Pedro II for UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas System Board of RegentsBexarPublic meeting

• NSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationWallerWrite to the decider

• NSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationTravisWrite to the decider

• National Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book

  Research and scienceUnited States National Science FoundationBrazosClosed

• 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

  Research and scienceUnited States National Science FoundationBexarClosed

• National Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them

  Research and scienceUnited States National Science FoundationHarrisClosed

• NSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere

  Research and scienceNational Science FoundationHarris, TravisClosed

• The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines

  Research and scienceUnited States Army Research OfficeHarrisClosed

• Four Texas campuses took roles in the Energy Department's AI for science program

  Research and scienceUnited States Department of EnergyTravis, Tarrant, BrazosClosed

• National Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments

  Research and scienceNational Science FoundationHarrisWrite to the decider

• National Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys

  Research and scienceNational Science FoundationBrazosWrite to the decider

• National Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin

  Research and scienceUnited States National Science FoundationTravisWrite to the decider

• The Texas A&M System's shared AI supercomputer enters the world list at number 66

  Research and scienceThe Texas A&M University SystemStatewideWrite to the decider

• The National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationTravisWrite to the decider

• National Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationBrazosWrite to the decider

• UT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas at AustinTravisWrite to the decider

• Energy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials

  Research and scienceU.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-EnergyHarrisWrite to the decider

• Frontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026

  Research and scienceTexas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at AustinTravisWrite to the decider

• Texas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use

  Research and scienceTexas State UniversityHaysWrite to the decider

• National Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource

  Research and scienceNational Science FoundationTravisWrite to the decider

• UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas at San AntonioBexarWrite to the decider

• Energy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation

  Research and scienceU.S. Department of EnergyGrimesWrite to the decider

• Science foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems

  Research and scienceNational Science FoundationBrazosWrite to the decider

• UT Arlington develops a federally funded AI tutor and tests related technology with Fort Worth police

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas at ArlingtonTarrantWrite to the decider

• The National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationTravisWrite to the decider

• UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas at San AntonioBexarWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationHarrisWrite to the decider

• A Houston oil producer buys into an AI vendor and commits its Ward County operations to the vendor's system

  Research and scienceBattalion Oil CorporationWard, HarrisWrite to the decider

• National Science Foundation makes Texas Southern University one of five regional nodes in an HBCU network for AI and quantum science

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationHarrisWrite to the decider

• National Science Foundation funds Sagebrush, an AI inference platform for researchers nationwide, hosted at UT Austin's supercomputing center

  Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationTravisWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceU.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and AgricultureRandallWrite to the decider

• UT San Antonio builds a free training platform where students learn to find the security flaws in code an AI wrote

  Research and scienceNational Science FoundationBexarWrite to the decider

• Rice University sets out to hire 75 faculty working on AI and plans a research building for it in Houston's Ion District

  Research and scienceRice UniversityHarrisWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHarrisWrite to the decider

• USDA's Kerrville laboratory builds AI models that pick where, when and how many sterile flies to release against New World screwworm

  Research and scienceU.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research ServiceStatewideWrite to the decider

• Google.org funds a UT Austin team to build AI surrogate models for testing fusion reactor designs

  Research and scienceGoogle.orgTravisWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceTexas A&M UniversityBrazosWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceRice UniversityHarrisWrite to the decider

• UTEP and El Paso Water test whether a NASA backed AI model can map flooded streets from satellite images after a storm

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas at El PasoEl PasoWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceTexas A&M UniversityBrazosWrite to the decider

• A UT Austin dance and engineering team wins an award to build an AI model that learns from recorded human movement

  Research and scienceThe University of Texas at AustinTravisWrite to the decider

• San Antonio counts loose dogs in 32 study areas with phone cameras and object detection software

  Research and scienceCity of San Antonio Animal Care ServicesBexar, Comal, MedinaWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceTexas A&M UniversityBrazosWrite to the decider

• Texas A&M scientists use AlphaFold to screen every pairing of human mitochondrial proteins and publish the likely partners free

  Research and scienceTexas A&M AgriLife ResearchBrazosWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceTexas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at AustinTravisWrite to the decider

• 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

  Research and scienceTexas CHIPS Office, Office of the Governor (Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund)LubbockWrite to the decider

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