Colorful car sculpture on a sidewalk, painted with blue and decorated with various artistic designs.
Wilmington street art (Holly Quinn/Technical.ly)

This week in Delaware, a round-up of the top local startup accelerators and incubators, the Trump Administration’s AI executive orders and more.

Read on for Technical.ly’s weekly roundup of top news in the region.

📰 News Incubator: What else to know today

• Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings is among a coalition suing to stop the Trump Administration’s freeze on federal grants, and local orgs are stepping up to find ways to support affected parties, too. [Delaware Online/WDEL]
 
• Avelo Airlines is offering flights to New Orleans and back for Eagles fans for the Super Bowl. [Delaware Business Now]

• JPMorgan Chase employees will be returning to the office five days a week this year, boosting how much wage tax Wilmington will bring in. [Delaware Business Now]

• The Center for Public Integrity ranks Delaware No. 48 in transparency and accountability. Governor Matt Meyer’s third executive order aims to change that. [Delaware Public Media]

• Wilmington cancer research company Synnovation Therapeutics is asking the state’s Council on Development Finance for a $438,000 Strategic Fund grant to help the company nearly triple its workforce. [Delaware Live]

🗓️ On the Calendar

• Tuesday, Jan. 28 — Big Data and Hadoop Developer Certification Training in Dover [Details]

• Thursday, Jan. 30 — Webinar: Delaware Equitable Hiring Initiative: Creating Opportunities, Strengthening Communities with JPMorgan Chase [Details]

• Wednesday, March 5 — RASCL Summit: AIMing for Action: Adapting, Innovating and Mitigating the Impacts of Delaware’s Changing Climate, Del-One Conference Center in Dover [Details]

• Technical.ly event: Join us at our annual Builders Conference on May 8 and 9 to meet top innovation leaders and learn about regional economic mobility, AI implementations and startups. [Details]