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Q&A: Josh Driver’s Selflessly rebuilds software platform with AI agent at the core

July 17, 2026

Selflessly aims to help midsize and smaller organizations engage employees in philanthropy, volunteering and other good works.

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26 Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoff picks hit workers on medical and parental leave

July 15, 2026

Associated Press

The lawsuit says the layoffs violated several state and federal laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

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Hundreds of economists say ‘we must act now’ on AI’s economic impact and job displacement risks

July 14, 2026 | Associated Press

The statement released Monday was signed by top economists, along with computer scientists and some executives at tech companies including Anthropic, Google and OpenAI.

Massive AI buildout poses inflation threat as consumers pay more for laptops, electricity

July 13, 2026 | Associated Press

The gusher of investment in data centers — likely topping $700 billion this year — to power artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, as well as electricity, more expensive.

AI fueling startup boom across the United States

July 12, 2026 | Bloomberg News

Nationwide, economists say we’re seeing a business formation boom that’s closely correlated with AI’s growth.

Amid criticism, Meta reins in new AI tool that automatically accessed public Instagram images

July 12, 2026 | Associated Press

The move came less than a week after the parent of Instagram and Facebook rolled out Muse Image, its first image-generation model available through the company’s artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI.

SK Hynix $3.87B plant construction underway amid surging chip demand despite zoning suit

July 10, 2026 | Joey Harris

The plant is among at least nine that SK Hynix has in development or under construction, most in South Korea, and all aimed at fulfilling the growing demand for advanced computing, especially AI.

Q&A: Execs explain why Carmel-based Telamon finds itself at the heart of the digital-economy revolution

July 10, 2026

Telamon’s work has been drastically changed and supercharged by the data center boom, and Alex Paskoff stands at the center of that growth.

SK Hynix hits U.S. stock market as demand for memory chips soars amid AI frenzy

July 10, 2026 | Associated Press

The U.S. is SK Hynix’s largest market, accounting for 68.8% of its revenue last year. It is planning an expansion that includes building its first U.S. production facility, located in Indiana.

News outlets urge judge to sanction OpenAI in high-stakes AI copyright fight

July 9, 2026 | Associated Press

Newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, built their AI technologies using millions of news articles.

AI notetakers promise easy meeting recaps, but some professionals wary of their use

July 9, 2026 | Associated Press

Confidential personnel information, corporate strategies, trade secrets and remarks that could later be seen as incriminating — all of it could end up in the wrong hands.

Rebounding AI stocks send S&P 500 within 1% of its record

July 6, 2026 | Associated Press

Artificial intelligence stocks have swung sharply in recent weeks on worries that their prices have risen too high.

UPDATED: Indy advances data center zoning district, ignores calls for moratorium

July 1, 2026 | Taylor Wooten

The proposed district is called Special Use district 47, or SU-47. It is modeled off of the zoning regulations for medium industrial developments.

IBJ Podcast: Indy cybersecurity expert on preparing for impending AI threat to businesses

June 29, 2026 |

Mason King

Chetrice Romero also shares what she learned from her somber experience on the search and rescue task force responding to the Surfside condo building collapse in 2021.

Statewide effort aims to hasten businesses’ use of AI

June 26, 2026 |

Susan Orr

A new statewide initiative, IN AI, aims to help Indiana companies find ways to succeed with artificial intelligence.

Nvidia seeks to make humanoid AI robots safer around humans

June 22, 2026 | Bloomberg News

Nvidia and its Silicon Valley peers are racing to develop technology for robotics, billing it as the next big market for artificial intelligence.

Tech workers who don’t embrace AI face triple the layoff risk, Gallup finds

June 18, 2026 | Bloomberg News

The findings indicate that AI adoption is becoming a fault line inside companies, one that’s increasingly affecting individual careers.

Nvidia CEO Huang pledges AI will boost manufacturing jobs

June 16, 2026 | Associated Press

Jensen Huang led Nvidia as it became the world’s most valuable company, worth roughly $5 trillion, to a point where it is looking beyond chips to developing entire AI systems.

SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60B in race for edge over Anthropic and OpenAI

June 16, 2026 | Associated Press

Cursor helped spark a trend called “vibe coding” as AI coding assistants have become increasingly capable of doing the work of computer programming.

Trump tried to block state AI regulations, but some states are forging ahead

June 14, 2026 | Associated Press

States are scrutinizing how chatbots interact with children, how employers use AI and what developers must do to prevent an AI-caused catastrophe.

The skills people still perform better than AI, according to workplace experts

June 11, 2026 | Associated Press

Some workplace experts argue that with more businesses adopting AI tools, soft skills are worth cultivating to help employees become indispensible.

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