Your deep dive into AI news and trends reshaping Texas.
Everything is bigger in Texas—including the impact of artificial intelligence.
Hosted by Shannon Belew, IntoTexas AI brings you the most important AI stories impacting Texas—from data centers and enterprise adoption to startups, policy, and the shifting balance of power in work.
Each episode delivers:
The biggest AI news stories connected to Texas
What it means for business leaders, innovators and investors
Fast insights you can actually use
It's a front-row seat to how AI is transforming one of the most important economic regions.
Cyberattacks, Hurricanes and AI: Preparing for the Next Disaster
A cyberattack turns supermarket refrigeration systems against their owners. A hurricane puts AI weather forecasts to the test. Both raise a practical question: How do we keep essential services running when disaster strikes?
From the Disasters Expo in Houston, Shannon Belew explores how artificial intelligence is being used—and tested—to help communities and businesses prepare, respond and recover.
This episode examines Google DeepMind’s role in Hurricane Isaias forecasting, new MIT–Microsoft research on longer-range weather predictions, Texas A&M’s disaster-response tools, and GiveDirectly’s use of AI-assisted damage assessment to help target hurricane cash relief.
We also look at the limits: why connected equipment still needs basic cybersecurity, why emergency information must be checked, and why human judgment remains essential.
Subscribe to IntoTexas AI for upcoming interviews from the Disasters Expo and more on how AI is reshaping Texas business and everyday life.
#ArtificialIntelligence #DisasterPreparedness #DisasterRecovery #EmergencyManagement #Cybersecurity #TexasAI #IntoTexasAI
8 Oct 2026
Is AI That Knows Your Industry The Smarter AI? Betting On Verticals
The next big AI advantage may not be a smarter model. It may be AI that understands exactly how your industry works.
In this episode of the IntoTexas AI podcast, Shannon Belew looks at three Texas companies betting on specialized, industry-specific AI: UpSmith in Dallas, building AI for HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors; Scaffold in Austin, connecting the systems behind residential construction; and Circuit in Austin, turning decades of manufacturing know-how into answers technicians can use in seconds.
We also look at the other end of the spectrum: HubSpot's restructuring around delivering outcomes with AI, and what happens when the companies that built the last generation of business software collide with the ones built for this one.
Plus new Gartner research on where agentic AI ROI is coming from, and Dallas Fed data on how deeply Texas companies are really using AI.
If you run a business, you'll come away with three practical moves for deciding where specialized AI belongs in your company.
Read more on the IntoTexas AI blog: AI Business Insights Blog | IntoTexas (https://intotexas.com/blog/) Subscribe for weekly AI news and strategy for Texas businesses.
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3 Oct 2026
Agents, Open Models & the Real Cost of AI: Texas News + AI Conference Recap
Texas wants the AI buildout, but who pays for it? This week on IntoTexas AI, I break down the launch of the Lone Star Infrastructure Coalition, the industry's push to win over Texas communities on data centers. I also cover Crusoe's wind-powered Google campus in the Panhandle and Kyndryl's new AI Innovation Lab in Frisco.
Then I bring you what I learned at The AI Conference in San Francisco, where more than 5,000 builders and leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, NVIDIA and more gathered to talk about what's actually working in AI right now.
You'll hear takeaways from five standout talks:
Peter Norvig (Stanford HAI) on what comes after the AI breakthrough, and why AI is still "jagged"
Jonathan LaCour (CDW) on why 88% of companies use AI but fewer than 7% see real financial results
Anthony Stevens (IBM) on agent security and the "harness" that keeps AI agents in check
Di Jin (Nebius) on why post-training is the new competitive moat
Chase Norton (Faros) on when open models are good enough, and when frontier AI is worth the premium
The big theme: the companies that win won't be the ones with the fanciest model. They'll be the ones that put AI inside real workflows, control costs, build in guardrails and turn their own business knowledge into an advantage. That goes for every mid-market business in Texas.
Deeper dives on each talk are coming soon on the blog.
🔗 Learn more: IntoTexas.com
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