Flash-funding award recipient Akram Al-Turk, a research associate at the Moritz Center for Societal Impact at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, works on his grant proposal at the WCWH Symposium, February 7.
Abril 15, 2025
Rapid Pitches, Real-World Impact

Two research teams won rapid-turnaround grants at the 2025 Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Symposium for projects tackling health and environmental issues in Central Texas.

UT professor Matthew Lease speaks on a panel about the ethics and policy of AI at the TAMEST conference
Marzo 28, 2025
AI Companies Are Turning Gig Workers into Human Farms

With a constant need to expand data sets, highly educated employees are being asked to feed sentences to machines all day long.

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Marzo 27, 2025
Proposed Texas House bill aims to regulate AI in politics

A bill to label some campaigns advertisements as artificial intelligence (AI) has received a favorable committee report, but it could be headed for trouble.

A child gets his face painted at Community Resource Day; April 2024
Marzo 18, 2025
Trust or Bust

Building trust is at the heart of Whole Communities–Whole Health’s research. By returning data, listening to feedback and engaging families as collaborators, WCWH is strengthening community connections and refining approaches to long-term, community-based studies.

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Marzo 15, 2025
How Will AI Work With Human Intelligence?

In this episode of The Next Innovation, host Samantha Murphy Kelly takes the stage at Ireland House, the designated meeting point of Enterprise Ireland innovators and leaders during the annual SXSW tech conference in Austin, Texas

A smartphone screen displays a folder labeled "AI Tools," containing six app icons: ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Grok. The background is blurred with a blue digital code-like pattern.
Marzo 12, 2025
Navigating the AI Landscape: Universities Unite for Ethical Innovation

Experts in AI, the humanities, and ethics gathered at Johns Hopkins for the Ethical & Responsible AI University Collaborative to explore how academic institutions can guide AI development

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Marzo 4, 2025
TribCast: The looming fight over regulating AI in Texas

University of Texas at Austin professor Sherri Greenberg talks about attempts by state lawmakers to protect Texans from the dangers of artificial intelligence and the blowback they're creating among some Republicans and people in the tech industry.

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Feb. 13, 2025
Are you AI literate? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

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Peter Stone
Feb. 12, 2025
How to get a Research Opportunity In Undergraduate with Peter Stone

Peter is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the associate department chair and Director of Texas Robotics.

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Ene. 22, 2025
Trump announces $500B AI infrastructure investment: How does Texas play a key role?

President Donald Trump has announced an up to $500 billion investment in private sector artificial intelligence infrastructure, which is kicking off with data centers in Texas.