Health Systems Urged to Rethink AI Hype
A BJC and WashU Medicine executive says medical AI has decades of research behind it and should not be treated as new.
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Do you trust AI to be used safely in your own medical care?
St. Louis Tech News
Coverage of tech in St. Louis focuses on local startups, regional technology companies and the digital economy around them. This page brings together reporting on product launches, hiring, funding and the policy questions that affect the city's tech sector.
Artificial Intelligence
World Wide Technology Earns Cisco Secure AI Recognition
The St. Louis-based firm is the only U.S. Cisco Global Partner to hold both Secure Networking and AI specializations.
Data Centers
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Should local data centers pay license fees based on their energy consumption?
St. Louis Proposes Data Center Power Usage Fees
Legislation would link business license fees to energy consumption to fund local residential grid improvements.
Cybersecurity
ThrottleNet Won St. Louis IT and Security Awards
The company secured top honors in the 2026 Small Business Monthly Best in Business survey.
Biotech
Live Poll
Do you support the use of gene editing technology to develop new agricultural crop traits?
St. Louis Startup Spearhead Bio Raised $1.62 Million
The biotech firm secured seed funding to adapt its plant gene-editing technology for commercial agricultural use.
Day to day, that means startup funding rounds, expansions and relocations by local tech firms, and the hiring trends that shape the regional job market. Coverage reaches across the city and into the suburbs where many tech workers and companies are based. Research institutions and the universities that feed local talent pipelines come up often in these stories. Data privacy, broadband access and the costs of building technology businesses in the Midwest are recurring themes that shape how the sector grows here.