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The global AI race is underway, as countries compete to keep up with the rapidly evolving technology. With Austin emerging as a center of AI innovation, the people studying and working with the technology are shaping not only what it means for the U.S. to compete, but also the cost that comes with it.

In March 2025, Austin Police allegedly found more than 365,000 images of child sexual abuse material on the devices of Carl Innmon, then a fifth grade teacher at Baranoff Elementary in the Austin Independent School District.

On opposite sides of the country two teenagers made the same tragic decision to end their lives just months apart. They did not know each other, but they both engaged with AI chatbots from Character.AI prior to their deaths.

Round Rock police are warning the community about a viral TikTok trend where users are creating AI-generated images of home intruders to prank roommates, neighbors and parents.

The Texas Data Center Market Has 448 data centers, operated by 127 providers, according to Baxtel.com which tracks data centers and their development.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

AI-based technologies do many things faster and better than humans can alone, with the promise of so much more ahead. And with that, comes a lot of questions, possibilities and well-founded concerns.

Several Texans, including a popular country music artist, urged state lawmakers to put more guardrails on artificial intelligence during a hearing Tuesday at the State Capitol.

Students heading back to school this semester are entering the classroom with a new tool that experts say could soon be as common as a calculator.

The University of Texas at Austin just launched a unique AI master's program. Enrollment for the first semester far exceeded expectations.

On this episode of KUT's "Texas Standard," Moody College of Communication assistant professor Samantha Shorey chimes in on the burgeoning unionizing of tech workers in the Austin area.

Higher education institutions are also looking at the opportunities and challenges AI brings. Dr. Chandra Bhat, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, helps us learn more about the role of AI in the classroom and as a subject of research.

In this episode, Brené and Craig discuss what is known in the AI community as the “alignment problem” — who needs to be at the table in order to build systems that are aligned with our values as a democratic society?

Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company, has begun testing its fully autonomous cars in Austin with no driver behind the wheel.

For Steven Apodaca, vice chairman of the City of Austin’s Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission, now is the time to get ahead of the emerging technology of artificial intelligence.

Writing copy. Organizing data. Building models to predict trends. All things artificial intelligence can help us do. And it’s a topic Austin City Council members are turning their attention to Thursday.

Amid fears that AI could heighten bias or affect privacy, the state is forming an advisory committee to recommend how the technology is deployed. “We’re gonna have to set up some rules,” the committee’s founder says.

HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A facial recognition software could come to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office in the future.

While a lot of attention has been focused on ChatGPT, which allows a user to input information and get a response, UT researchers are working on several other ways A.I. can be used in schools.