Abs King, Lead Product Designer at Palladyne AI (Salt Lake City, UT) bridges the gap between industrial workers and AI-powered robots through user-centered interface design, drawing on a background in organizational communication.

Utah tech leaders gathered at Thanksgiving Point's Show Barn for the Women Tech Council's "AI Won't Wait" summit, where executives, educators, and practitioners made the case that AI readiness — not AI adoption — is now the defining competitive variable.

A 10-year, 200-mile fiber project finally connects Navajo Mountain High School — one of Utah's last unconnected public schools — to high-speed broadband, marking a milestone for the Navajo Nation.

TechBuzz profiles Alison Smart’s campaign to preserve Levemir, the discontinued insulin detemir that some patients uniquely need, through stories from Michela Belluta, Kirill Zenchenko, Jaime Losinski, and Dr. Maisa Feghali, who warn alternatives can be riskier.

Cy4Data Labs launches Cy4Signal, an additional encryption layer for Signal messenger that protects messages, voice, and video even after extraction from the platform, targeting government and enterprise users facing increasingly sophisticated AI-driven social engineering attacks.

LVT's 2026 Harris Poll survey of 2,089 Americans finds broad support for targeted AI surveillance with strict guardrails. It also documents a measurable safety-driven chilling effect on civic engagement ahead of midterms.

Four Utah startups — building living computers, AI health coaching, topical pain relief, and eye-based anemia detection — pitched at Silicon Slopes' Third Thursday, drawing a standing-room crowd of investors and entrepreneurs.

Utah's landmark Senate Bill 275 creates SEDI, a state-endorsed digital identity system built on a legally binding "Duty of Loyalty." A World Cup hackathon at UVU on June 17–18 invites global teams to help build it