Obra Launches to Put Job Seekers First in an AI-Chaotic Hiring Market techbuzznews.com/obra-puttin… Obra has two linked products, the Obra Jobs app and Obra Hire obra.co/hire, which is a self-serve hiring platform providing hiring managers direct access to quality candidates. #HR #AIRecruiting #AIRecruitingSoftware #AIRecruitingTools #CandidateSourcing #Recruiting

From Scrunch to Searchable: How Utah Became a Launchpad for the AI Search Economy techbuzznews.com/searchable-… Searchable, (@trysearchable) a UK-based AI visibility startup, has opened a Salt Lake City office staffed by two former Scrunch AI employees whose previous company was just acquired by Sitecore for a reported $225 million. #AiAnalytics #AISearch #SEO #AIO #GEO

Utah's Energy Playbook: Beehive Energy Alliance Panelists Break Down Incentives, Capital and the Data Center Debate techbuzznews.com/beehive-ene… At a Beehive Energy Alliance gathering in Salt Lake City, Utah officials and investors described a state well-positioned to attract energy capital — but warned that workforce shortages, not funding or ideas, may be the real constraint on delivery.

The Camera Feels Safer Than the Guard: Inside LVT's 2026 Public Safety & Privacy Benchmark techbuzznews.com/lvt-2026-ha… LVT's 2026 Public Safety & Privacy Benchmark, backed by a Harris Poll of 2,089 U.S. adults, finds Americans trust visible AI cameras more than armed guards, support behavior-detection technology, but draw a firm bipartisan line against tracking at civic events.

Utah’s Nuclear Ecosystem Takes Next Step With Proposed Training and Research Campus in Brigham City techbuzznews.com/cert-takes-… Utah State University, Hi Tech Solutions, and Brigham City advance plans for 20,000-square-feet of facilities designed to train workers, support nuclear research and build the workforce for Utah’s emerging nuclear industry.

Anne Bastien Named Senior Director of University of Utah’s Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute techbuzznews.com/anne-bastie… Anne Bastien, a longtime Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute leader and University of Utah alumna, has been named senior director, bringing nearly 16 years of experience to the institute’s next chapter.

Utah Spaceport Update: A Presidential Order, Site Visits, and a Sense of Inevitability techbuzznews.com/utah-spacep… Utah's spaceport committee shifts into higher gear after Trump's National Space Transportation Policy lands the morning of its August meeting — and after committee members kick the dirt at Delta and Green River

Utah’s First Hard Tech Week Opens the Door for Companies to Host Events Across the State techbuzznews.com/utahs-first… Utah’s first Hard Tech Week, October 26-30, 2026, will showcase aerospace, defense and hard-tech innovation through demos, tours, networking and events hosted by companies across the state

Flying Blind: Why St. George Brothers Think Unmanned Aircraft Can Fix American Firefighting techbuzznews.com/flying-blin… After watching wildfire smoke close their only road home in 2017, brothers Michael and Jeff Baxter left aerospace careers at Boeing and SpaceX to build Dragonfly, an unmanned aircraft designed to make aerial firefighting safer, cheaper and possible at night.

Weave to Go Private in $650 Million Sale to Francisco Partners techbuzznews.com/weave-to-go… Francisco Partners will acquire Utah-based Weave Communications in a $650 million all-cash buyout at $7.40 per share. The deal expands Francisco Partners' vertical healthcare SaaS portfolio while offering public shareholders a 34% premium.

I've had a front-row seat to what 47G is building, and I’m excited to be a part of the first-ever Hard Tech Week. Utah has become one of the densest hard tech bases in the country. Rockets, drones, isotopes, energy, composites. The work America's future actually depends on, built right here. This October 26–30, Hard Tech Week will throw the doors open to the world. A full week of tours, demos, and a behind-the-scenes look at what we build here, anchored by the highly-anticipated Zero Gravity Summit. Monday it was announced that Olympian Shaun White will be a keynote speaker.  Watch the video below. Then come see it for yourself. 👇 47G.org/hard-tech-week Early bird tickets for the Zero Gravity Summit only last two more weeks before the price goes up, so get your tickets now. ZeroGravitySummit.com

University of Utah, XPRIZE Explore New Models for Tackling Utah’s Biggest Challenges techbuzznews.com/utah-looks-… The University of Utah and XPRIZE are exploring incentive competitions as a model for tackling Utah challenges, including Great Salt Lake restoration, minerals, climate innovation, healthspan, and research commercialization, connecting researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, industry and government.

Utah Launches $5 Million AI Moonshot Program for Research With Real-World Impact techbuzznews.com/utah-launch… Utah’s $5 million AI Moonshot program will fund research addressing challenges in mental health, water, healthcare and autonomous systems, with university-sponsored proposals due October 15.

Implementing Ideas Marks 20 Years With Ribbon Cutting on New Orem Facility techbuzznews.com/implementin… Implementing Ideas marked 20 years in business with a ribbon-cutting open house at its new Orem facility, featuring remarks from CEO David Zoppetti, 47G's Gerritt Vander Linden, and keynote speaker Johnny Ferry of the Utah Manufacturers Association.

From Staff to Manager: What @UVU Faculty Built When AI Got a Say in the Classroom techbuzznews.com/inside-uvus… UVU's Kahlert Institute for Applied AI trained faculty to build custom AI tools this summer. Across six profiles, a pattern emerges: instructors engineering restraint into AI, and shifting from teaching AI use to teaching AI management.

Inside LOIS Legal Research: How Filevine Is Hunting for the Precedents Citators Can't See techbuzznews.com/filevine-la… Filevine (Salt Lake City, UT) launched its LOIS platform, adding an AI-native legal citator that targets specific passages rather than whole opinions, using dual-pathway retrieval to surface uncited "sub silentio" conflicts.

Golf Never Sleeps: Inside St. George's Back Nine Franchise Boom techbuzznews.com/inside-st-g… Back Nine Golf (St. George, UT) has grown from a startup into a nationwide franchise network offering automated 24-hour indoor golf facilities, combining simulator technology with a low-staff operating model and international expansion.

Utah Hackathon Winner Bloom Takes on the $10 Billion Dating Industry techbuzznews.com/bloom-rethi… Craig Cossairt is preparing to launch Bloom, an AI-native dating app that converts into a relationship app once couples commit — a first for the industry. He's building toward launch after winning a UVU data governance bounty in June.

DoorDash for Home Services: The $650 Billion Problem Hiding in Plain Sight techbuzznews.com/tdooz-home-… St. George entrepreneur Matthew Dickerson launches Tdooz, a fixed-price home services booking app he calls the "DoorDash for home services." The platform targets a $650 billion industry, beginning with a Washington County beta ahead of a planned Phoenix expansion.

Obra Launches to Put Job Seekers First in an AI-Chaotic Hiring Market techbuzznews.com/obra-puttin… South Jordan-based Obra emerges from stealth with two linked products, Obra Jobs and Obra Hire, betting that AI broke hiring's inbound signal and that a trust-first, outbound-focused platform can restore it. #HRTech #AIRecruiting