OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project
OpenAI agreed to about 8 GW of AI computing capacity at the PORTS-Pike campus in Pike County with SB Energy and NVIDIA, projecting 35,000 construction jobs and 2,500 long-term jobs.
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Columbus City Schools welcoming AI learning into their classrooms
Columbus City Schools will use approved AI tools this year under a policy based on the state model, after Ohio required every district to adopt an AI policy by July 1, 2026.
ABC6 ·All academic departments at Miami to integrate artificial intelligence into the curriculum by 2027-2028
Through its AI in the Majors initiative, Miami will add field-specific AI skills to every department. The first 13 departments start in fall 2026, and the rest follow by 2027-28.
Miami University ·PUCO orders AEP Ohio to set protections for Ohioans against data center energy costs
PUCO now requires data centers to give AEP Ohio 180 days' notice before returning to default service and to pay the full cost of that power so other customers don't absorb it.
Spectrum News 1 ·RWX Raises $12M Series A to Scale the Dev Cloud for AI-Driven Engineering
Columbus-based RWX, which builds CI/CD and testing infrastructure for AI coding agents, closed a $12M Series A led by Hyde Park Venture Partners, with The O.H.I.O. Fund participating.
Business Wire ·Claude now available in BearcatsGPT AI platform
UC added Anthropic's Claude as a model option in its BearcatsGPT platform for teaching, research and operations, limited to public-classified university data.
University of Cincinnati ·First Ohio-Built Fury Rolls Off Anduril's Arsenal-1 Production Line
Anduril's Arsenal-1 near Rickenbacker finished its first semi-autonomous Fury aircraft; the $910.5M autonomous-systems plant is committed to 4,008 jobs by 2035.
JobsOhio ·Ohio State researchers to lead national teams exploring science, AI innovation
Two Ohio State-led teams, one partnered with Intel and one with NVIDIA, were selected for DOE's $293M Genesis Mission, which uses AI to speed up energy and science research.
Ohio State News ·OSC helps Youngstown State students turn research projects into future opportunities
Youngstown State students used OSC supercomputers for quantum computing and blockchain research, and a YSU summer program taught high schoolers AI by training a reinforcement-learning agent.
Ohio Supercomputer Center ·Three former SpaceX engineers opened a factory in Cincinnati. Here's what it will build.
Cincinnati startup 1872, founded by ex-SpaceX engineers, raised a $15M seed round led by funds advised by The O.H.I.O. Fund for an AI- and robotics-driven steel fabrication factory in Camp Washington.
WKRC Local 12 ·UC selected for federal initiative to use AI to advance scientific discovery
A UC geosciences team was among 278 projects DOE picked from more than 5,000 for the Genesis Mission. It will build AI workflows and digital twins to model underground energy and environmental systems.
University of Cincinnati ·Cleveland City Council Approves Temporary Pause on New Standalone Data Centers
Cleveland approved a three-month moratorium, through Oct. 20, on permits for new or expanded standalone data centers while it studies impacts on neighborhoods, the grid and Great Lakes water.
City of Cleveland ·Case Western Reserve University's new AI tool expands genetic research across multiple ancestries
NIH-funded CWRU researchers released MRBEE-TL, an AI transfer-learning method that applies large European-ancestry datasets to smaller, more diverse populations to find disease risk factors.
Case Western Reserve University ·Rep. Sykes Secures Nearly $200,000 For Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Akron
The NSF awarded the University of Akron $199,413 to develop faster, more reliable computing methods for large distributed AI systems, to be tested on real cloud platforms.
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