AI Company Anthropic Selects Memphis for Major Expansion at Colossus Supercomputer Site

by Kaitlin Housler | May 7, 2026 | Economy, News, Tennessee, The South

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude, announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement to use the full compute capacity of the Colossus 1 supercomputer facility in Memphis. The agreement gives Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of...

Missouri Voters Oust City Council Members Who Backed Multi-Billion Dollar AI Data Center

by | Apr 13, 2026 | Education, National, News

by Ryan Meilstrup   Voters in Independence, Missouri, voted on Tuesday to oust two city councilmembers after they backed an AI data center in the community. Independence councilmembers Bridget McCandless, who was running for mayor, and Jared Fears (pictured...

XOi Technologies Expands in Nashville with New Headquarters in the Gulch

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 9, 2026 | Economy, News, Tennessee, The South

The Nashville-based tech firm XOi Technologies has officially opened a new 6,000-square-foot headquarters in the 333 office building in the Gulch neighborhood, marking a significant milestone for the company that began just over a decade ago as a small startup...

Tennessee Council Releases Report on How State Should Use AI in Future

by Zachery Schmidt | Nov 29, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee

Tennessee’s AI Advisory Council Membership Information released a report this week on how the state should use artificial intelligence (AI) in the future. The report, titled “Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council Action Plan,” said it wants Tennessee to be a...

Texas AG Announces Investigation into DeepSeek

by Zachery Schmidt | Feb 17, 2025 | Justice, National, News

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into DeepSeek last week, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company. DeepSeek launched on January 20th, and it overtook ChatGPT’s spot as the top downloaded app on the Apple store in a week. A day after...

Redis and Amazon to Address A.I. Hallucinations, Improve Accuracy

by Christina Botteri | Dec 2, 2024 | Economy, National, News, Tech Media

Redis announced on Monday that it is expanding its integration with Amazon Bedrock to further enhance the performance and reliability of generative AI applications. The goal, to company said, is to reduce errors such as hallucinations and improve the overall...

Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti Urges Congress to Pass Child Safety Act

by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 14, 2024 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is among the bipartisan coalition of 44 state and territory attorneys general endorsing the Child Exploitation and Artificial Intelligence Expert Commission Act of 2024. In September 2023, Skrmetti was part of a coalition...