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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...
MEETING OF MINDS: Bob Chatman, left, Slater Technology Fund director, discusses the fund’s portfolio with Thorne Sparkman, Slater’s managing director, at the CIC Providence LLC building, the location of several companies that Slater has invested in. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
Sonya Cheteyan

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...
SEEING A NEED: Diana Franchitto, CEO and president of HopeHealth, has worked to improve accessibility to hospice and palliative care for Rhode Island residents. 
PBN PHOTO/­TRACY JENKINS

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...
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