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This Month's Latest Tech News in McAllen, TX - Sunday August 31st 2025 Edition

Too Long; Didn't Read: McAllen's AI surge: MXLAN summit drives real use cases - predictive maintenance, generative emergency medicine - while UTRGV wins $2.8M NSF ARISE grant, Ciudad Juarez lost ~64,000 manufacturing jobs (Jun 2023–Jun 2025), FiberL... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Amarillo's HyperGrid plans ~18M sq ft and up to 11 GW AI capacity, targeting 1 GW on‑site by 2026 with 600+ MW gas now and four AP1000 reactors proposed; CoreWeave/Helios commits 800 MW (first power early 2026), while TTU ramp... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Killeen's tech pulse (Aug 31, 2025): Centex hires John Sharp (July 25) to boost cybersecurity/AI; new generative‑AI training programs (8–15 week tracks); KISD approves $35.3M renovation, 3% raises; Goodwill opens new center; $... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Austin's AI boom: $20M NSF IFML renewal, $2.3M Snowfire pre‑seed, Nvidia's on‑shore build up to $500B, Samsung–Tesla $16.5B chip deal, 121 local AI companies with ~$592M funding, and council/legislative moves on AI oversight a... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Houston becomes a U.S. AI manufacturing hub as NVIDIA/Foxconn commission >1,000,000 sq ft in Texas/Arizona, targeting mass production in 12–15 months and up to $500B AI infrastructure; Rice opens a 10,000 sq ft AI accelerator;... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Fermi America's HyperGrid near Amarillo plans ~18M sq ft and up to 11 GW IT capacity, backed by $100M Series C and $250M loan; targets 1 GW by 2026, four AP1000 reactors (~4,400 MWe) by early‑2030s. Watch water, NRC COLA (file... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Fort Worth's AI surge: Wistron's $761M renovation (1.1M sq ft) will create 800+ jobs by early 2026; Lambda and Aligned plan a $700M Plano AI data center; UTA launched a $2.1M supercomputing hub; FiberLight and Cognigy expand H... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Corpus Christi tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): Duos deploying two 55×13ft Edge Data Centers (2 EDCs, live ~90 days, within 12 miles, 100 kW+/cabinet); Port OPTICS covers ~50 sq mi with ML/LLM features; $5.4M USPS upgrade; $100.6M... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Laredo tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): DHS warns multimodal deepfakes amid $200M+ thefts; InvestigateTV demos teach spotting tactics; Run on Less tests mixed-powertrain fleets with Albert Transport; Laredo ranks 98/99 for interne... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: League City earned U.S. News “Best Places” (2025–26) amid record 40,112 active listings and ~6.6% 30‑yr rates; nearby Starbase incorporated (Yes 212–6, ~1.5–1.6 sq mi, ~500 residents) as launches may rise from ~5 to 25/year, s... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Brownsville's AI surge includes Alpha School's AI‑driven K–8 pilot (reported ~2× learning velocity after nine months, ~$10K pilot tuition), STARBASE city vote (212–6), Texas HB149 effective Jan 1, 2026 with 36‑month sandbox, a... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: UTEP launched AI‑ICER (≈30 faculty) to focus on water security and Hispanic health; bilingual AI kiosks logged 1,000+ users (20% Spanish); Texas passed TRAIGA (effective Jan 1, 2026); Project Jupiter proposes $165B data‑center... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: North Texas is surging: NVIDIA plans U.S. AI supercomputer manufacturing (mass production in 12–15 months, >1M sq ft, up to $500B US AI infrastructure), Wistron committed $761M (800+ jobs), Collin County projected >$360B GDP b... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Columbus ranks in the top 25% for AI talent, innovation and adoption (Brookings), with ~$60B in regional AI commitments, NG911 supporting 55 languages and 31,000+ texts, Microsoft pausing a $1B data center, SoftBank buying Lor... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Pennsylvania logged $90B+ in AI and energy pledges - Blackstone $25B, FirstEnergy $15B, PPL $6.8B - fueling gigawatt projects, tens of thousands of construction jobs, CoreWeave's $6B (100–300 MW) Lancaster campus, Penn's 8.5 P... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Meta confirms $800M, 715,000‑sq‑ft AI data center on 280 acres in Bowling Green, operational ~2027, ~100 permanent jobs and 1,000+ construction peak; PUCO's 85% prepayment rule shifts grid costs to data centers; O.H.I.O. Fund ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: University at Buffalo launched a Department of AI and Society with a $5M state seed, seven AI+X bachelor's beginning Fall 2025, aiming for 300+ students/year by 2030; Empire AI's $500M+ compute cuts model training from ~2 week... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: New York's August 31, 2025 roundup: NYT inks a $20–$25M‑range AI licensing deal with Amazon; NYC Tech Week drew ~60,000 RSVPs across 1,000+ events; MTA pilots behavior‑detecting AI cameras; state bans AI child deepfakes and ma... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Rochester's AI surge links new degree programs (Nazareth 16‑month MS; UR/ RIT initiatives), industry pilots (Visa agentic payments, Sutherland Sentinel AI®), open research (MagicTime: >2,000 time‑lapse videos), $2.3M workforce... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Detroit's tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): Apple/MSU open free Apple Manufacturing Academy Aug 19; Detroit Startup Fund deploys $700K for 26 grants; Michigan data‑center pipeline ~7 GW (3 GW near‑term); UM wins $5.5M for INSIGHT‑C... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Cleveland's AI surge: Cleveland Clinic scales ambient AI (1M encounters, ~4,000 users, ~2 min saved/visit); Oracle–Cleveland Clinic–G42 partner; GE's Aurora cleared by FDA (98% better bone SPECT); Ohio mandates K–12 AI policie... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Pittsburgh's AI surge tied to a July summit unveiling ~$90–92B in data‑center, gas, nuclear and hydro projects (Brookfield+Google ~670 MW). Regional VC hit $600.8M in Q2; potential job gains up to ~200,000. Short upskilling (1... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Pantomath closed a $30M Series B (Aug 4) led by General Catalyst in Mason; UC scaled BearcatGPT to ~1,000 users and a CMMC‑compliant research cloud; Kroger reported a 15% eCommerce lift; Microsoft paused a $1B Ohio data‑center... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Georgia unveils Horizons Innovation Lab for regulated GenAI pilots; Mercedes‑Benz to relocate up to 500 jobs to Sandy Springs by Aug 2026; UPS–Figure talks show ~4.05s throughput and 95% barcode success; Brookings ranks Atlant... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Victorville tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): Nightfood's $41M LOI to convert a 155‑room Holiday Inn with Skytech robots (projected 25–40% uplift); $470K ShotSpotter rollout helped solve 3 incidents; FireSat's prototype detects 5×5... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Atlanta's AI and commercialization surge: Georgia Tech advanced 500+ technologies, 464 invention disclosures and 124 patents; CardioTag won FDA 510(k). NSF granted $20M for Nexus (400+ quadrillion ops/sec, 330T bytes memory). ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Stockton faces rapid AI adoption and lighter state rules: Newsom's vendor deals promise free training for over two million students, ADMT compliance begins Jan 1, 2027, audits 2027–2029, city pilots and floating data center sa... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Santa Maria's tech roundup: Allan Hancock's April AI Summit drew 200+ attendees; SBCAG won $480K Caltrans funding ($542,189 total) for an AI bike map; Diablo Canyon's on-site AI saves ~15,000 staff hours/year; California's MOU... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Tulare County launched an AI task force and new website (Aug 21); FireSat prototype detected fires as small as 5×5 m (launched Mar 2025); Google's AI Mode rolled out May 20, 2025; California gas average ≈ $4.64/gal. AI bootcam... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Aurora's August 31, 2025 tech roundup: new CIO Ram Tyagi unveils a five‑point AI/cloud agenda and 81 km fibre ring; Argonne's Aurora exascale (63,744 GPUs) boosts regional compute; Illinois SB2181 mandates data‑center energy/w... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Macon faces a turning point: Bolingbroke mega‑site rezoning denied (≈900–970 acres, nine buildings, ~1,000,000 gal/day water use, ≈$60M/yr tax potential). Local wins include Mercer's $75M downtown med campus, BrightFarms' 22,0... Read more