Mark is Co-founder/Editor of TechBuzz News. From Ogden, UT, Mark attended WSU, BYU, and Tufts. He has been involved in tech, media, publishing since the 80s.
Jump Aero (Petaluma, CA) brought its all-electric Pulse aircraft to South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan, pitching Utah on a rapid-response eVTOL designed to get a single paramedic to rural emergencies faster than an ambulance or helicopter.
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.
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.
A Utah courtroom dispute over edited surveillance footage highlights a growing challenge: verifying digital authenticity. Mike Nelson from DigiCert (Lehi, UT) explains why AI-driven manipulation demands stronger provenance standards to establish trust in images, videos and digital evidence.
At a Cynosure Group–Silicon Slopes Founder Circle lunch, Utah tech leaders debated whether the state should chase Fortune 500 scale or lean into a more diverse, founder-friendly ecosystem, amid AI's disruption of enterprise software.
Rodatherm Energy (Salt Lake City, UT) and Fulcrum Point Holdings (Salt Lake City, UT) are applying a shale-drilling financing model to scale waterless geothermal power near Brigham City, pairing it with Utah's nuclear buildout in a phased, cash-flow-funded energy campus strategy.
Two Orem-raised brothers turned a teenage YouTuber's request from foreign viewers to slow down into DittoDub, a Salt Lake City AI dubbing company now used by some of YouTube's largest creators, including Erling Haaland's rapidly growing channel.
Domo's board unanimously approved a $400 million asset sale to Progress Software, ending months of financial distress. Domo will retain over $900 million in tax loss carryforwards and continue as a separate public company under a new name.
