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Most-read stories on PBN.com, June 2026
1. PBN announces 2026 40 Under Forty honorees POSTED ONLINE: JUNE 2. Forty young professionals were selected as the winners of Providence Business News’...
All the world’s a robot-staging ground for tech entrepreneurs building ‘physical...
PROVIDENCE (AP) – Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models – the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like...
PBN unveils 2026 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE – Twenty-seven organizations have been named as honorees in Providence Business News’ 2026 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards program.
All the honorees for...
Pulitzer-winning Brown historian killed in E.P. parking lot crash
PROVIDENCE – Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning American Revolution historian and emeritus professor of history at Brown University, has died at the age of...
PBN announces 2026 40 Under Forty honorees
PROVIDENCE – Forty young professionals were selected as the winners of Providence Business News’ 22nd annual 40 Under Forty Awards program.
The honorees were chosen...
A HIGH-STAKES VENTURE: Slater startup fund has placed bets on 140...
Rhode Island’s old industrial base had already been decimated by the mid-1990s when state leaders scrambled to find ways to reinvent and revive the...
RIC graduate wins URI hackathon
SONYA CHETEYAN is among the first graduates of Rhode Island College’s Artificial Intelligence Bachelor’s Degree Program, completing a double major in artificial intelligence and...
Providing dignity and support at the end for patients
PBN Business Women Awards 2026
INDUSTRY LEADER | HEALTHCARE:
Diana Franchitto, HopeHealth CEO and president
Diana Franchitto wasn’t always interested in a career in hospice and palliative...
Beaudoin named dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Francesca L. Beaudoin, who has been serving as interim dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health since January, has been...
Rhode Island Foundation awards $650K to support 26 medical research projects
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded nearly $650,000 in seed funding to 26 medical research projects, supporting work ranging from artificial intelligence...



















