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 builds a federally funded AI tutor that withholds the answer and helps build Fort Worth police training on the same method

  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

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