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Syngenta, Taranis expand AI-powered crop partnership across Midwest

October 17, 2025 North State Journal Staff

GREENSBORO — Syngenta Crop Protection and Taranis, a global leader in AI-powered crop intelligence, announced a new strategic partnership to bring artificial intelligence technology to agricultural retailers across the Midwest. The collaboration builds on successful […]

OpenAI now worth $500B, possibly making it world’s most valuable startup

October 11, 2025 Matt O Brien

OpenAI could now be the world’s most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker. Current and former […]

UNC board discusses tuition increase, AI

October 2, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The UNC System Board of Governors’ September meeting included discussion of a possible increase in tuition, artificial intelligence and a remembrance of Charlie Kirk. The UNC System has not raised tuition for the past nine […]

OpenAI, Microsoft reach new agreement to change corporate structure

September 20, 2025 Thalia Beaty and Matt O Brien

OpenAI has reached a new tentative agreement with Microsoft and said its nonprofit, which technically controls its business, will now be given a $100 billion equity stake in its for-profit corporation. The maker of ChatGPT […]

FEW: The AI threat to critical thinking in our classrooms

August 29, 2025 Sheri Few

Technology has no place in kindergarten through eighth grade (K-8). Evidence abounds that learning through books, pencil and paper, and dialogue with real people builds the strongest foundation for learning and provides cognitive, emotional and practical benefits. The expensive […]

SHAPIRO: What will AI do for our happiness?

July 26, 2025 Ben Shapiro

The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and dispenses it in the present; a regulatory structure that focuses […]

OpenAI’s advisory board calls for continued, strengthened nonprofit oversight

July 26, 2025 Thalia Beaty

OpenAI should continue to be controlled by a nonprofit because the artificial intelligence technology it is developing is “too consequential” to be governed by a corporation alone. That is the message from an advisory board […]

Jabil to invest $500M in new Rowan County facility, create nearly 1,200 jobs

July 11, 2025 Dan Reeves

SALISBURY — Electronics manufacturer Jabil Inc. plans to create nearly 1,200 jobs in central North Carolina, investing $500 million in a new facility that will support the growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence […]

Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and US officials

July 8, 2025 Matthew Lee

RALEIGH — The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence, according to two senior officials and a cable […]

Amazon to invest $10B in Richmond County for data center, AI campus

June 13, 2025 The Associated Press

HAMLET — Amazon plans to invest $10 billion toward building a campus in North Carolina to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure, bringing a massive shot in the arm to a region where […]

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