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Cleveland Clinic and CHIME held an AI summit with more than 900 registrants, covering AI in diagnostics, clinical care, research and medical education, plus ethics and bias concerns.
Intel says its roughly $28B Ohio One campus is still on track for a first fab by 2031, though local officials know of no equipment orders yet and it's unclear who will run the plant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UC added Anthropic's Claude as a model option in its BearcatsGPT platform for teaching, research and operations, limited to public-classified university data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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