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MITechNews Building Michigan AI Company Directory — AI Firms Invited To Join For September Launch

ANN ARBOR — MITechNews is building a statewide directory of Michigan artificial intelligence companies designed to answer a deceptively simple question: Who is actually building Michigan's AI economy? The MITechNews Michigan AI Directory, scheduled to launch in September, will identify and categorize companies developing artificial intelligence products, platforms and services across the state. MITechNews already

By |2026-08-23T11:01:22-04:00August 23rd, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, ESD, Featured|

If AI Takes The Jobs, Who Gets The Money?

Artificial intelligence could make Michigan businesses dramatically more productive while reducing the number of workers they need. That raises an uncomfortable question: If machines increasingly create the wealth, how do people get enough money to buy what the machines produce? ANN ARBOR - Yesterday, MITechNews examined three possible artificial intelligence futures for Michigan. In the

By |2026-08-23T10:38:53-04:00August 23rd, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, ESD, Featured|

U.S. Debt Tops $40 Trillion — Here’s What It Could Mean For Michigan

Rising Federal Debt And Interest Costs Could Hit Michigan Retirees, Businesses And Rural Communities Particularly Hard WASHINGTON — The U.S. national debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time this week, doubling in roughly a decade and raising a much more personal question for Michigan residents and businesses: Who ultimately pays the bill? The answer

By |2026-08-21T12:05:58-04:00August 21st, 2026|Featured, Government/Politics, Politics, Politics/Government|

Michigan Built For The EV Boom. Now AI Data Centers Could Become The Bigger Prize

LG Energy Solution Starts Production At Lansing Battery Plant As AI Power Demand Opens A Second Market For Michigan’s EV Investments LANSING — Michigan spent billions of dollars and years of economic-development effort preparing for an electric-vehicle revolution. Now the explosive growth of artificial intelligence may give some of those investments a second — and

GM Changes Course Again On EVs — What It Means For Michigan Auto Jobs

GM is slowing parts of its electric-vehicle transition while protecting profitable gasoline vehicles and preserving enough EV capacity to respond if the market changes. But that strategy creates another risk: Could Detroit lose technological ground to China while Michigan auto workers wait to see where the next generation of jobs will be created? DETROIT —

By |2026-08-21T14:01:16-04:00August 16th, 2026|Auto Tech, Featured, News|

Why Michigan Gas Prices May Stay High Even As Oil Prices Fall

ExxonMobil's CEO says refinery constraints—not just crude oil prices—are increasingly determining what motorists pay at the pump. Michigan experts say global conflicts, refinery outages and uncertainty are keeping fuel markets volatile. Part Two Of A Series On How Oil Prices Impact Michigan's Economy.  ANN ARBOR – Michigan drivers hoping that easing tensions in the Middle

By |2026-08-05T08:43:38-04:00August 5th, 2026|Featured, News|

Michigan’s Next Economy: Michigan Can Build Startups. Now It Must Build Giants

Record venture investment, world-class universities and nearly 500,000 mobility jobs show Michigan's innovation economy is gaining momentum. The next challenge is turning promising startups into billion-dollar companies that stay and grow here. LANSING - Michigan has spent decades reinventing itself from the world's automotive capital into one of America's leading centers for mobility innovation. Today,

By |2026-08-03T17:32:19-04:00August 3rd, 2026|Featured, News|

MITechNews Is Building The Definitive Record Of Michigan’s AI Economy.

ANN ARBOR – Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming Michigan's economy. From manufacturing and mobility to healthcare, cybersecurity, finance, education, agriculture and defense, AI is changing how businesses operate and creating a new generation of innovative startups. Yet many of those companies remain largely unknown outside their own industries. MITechNews wants to change that. Beginning this

By |2026-07-28T16:50:43-04:00July 22nd, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured|

AMERICA AT 250 • No. 2 Analysis: The American Dream at 250: Why Millennials Face a Tougher Climb Than Baby Boomers

WASHINGTON DC - For much of the 20th century, the American Dream followed a familiar path. Graduate from school. Find a good job. Buy a home. Raise a family. Save for retirement. Leave your children better off than you were. It wasn't easy, and it wasn't equally available to every American. Baby Boomers faced recessions,

By |2026-07-05T13:22:52-04:00July 5th, 2026|Featured|

The Constitution’s Forgotten Ethics Rule: What Is an Emolument?

ANN ARBOR - Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.  In doing so, many are revisiting the ideas that shaped the nation's founding. One of the least familiar is a constitutional safeguard known as the Emoluments Clauses. The word "emolument" is rarely used in modern English. In the late 18th century,

By |2026-08-24T10:36:18-04:00July 3rd, 2026|Featured, Government/Politics, Politics, Politics/Government|