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ERCOT plans to finish Governor Abbott's audit of about 300 queued Texas data centers by December 10, 2026.

ChatGPT logged 5.32 billion June visits, over half of traffic across the 15 top AI tools.

Atlanta based Crawford and Company lets adjusters approve AI tools before they touch a live claim.

OpenAI cuts ChatGPT campaign setup to under a minute and claims a $1 billion ad run rate.

McKinsey: AI agent costs vary widely, from $5 per million tokens to $200K for bank agent workflows.

Stanford AI Index: US firms drove $344B of a record $581B in global AI investment in 2025.

Optimizely launches AI Virtual Teammates, giving marketers role based AI colleagues inside its Opal platform.

McKinsey: 60 percent of agentic AI cost is refinement, and 93 percent of firms blew AI budgets.

Stanford AI Index 2026: 88 percent global organizational AI use, 90 percent in North America.

NIQ will pipe Optiq retail data into client AI environments while keeping it out of public ChatGPT.

Careerminds survey finds Georgia owners slowing AI rollouts, with loyalty the top reason staff stay.

A Careerminds survey of 3,022 small-business owners estimates AI could handle part of 1.29 million Georgia jobs.

UPS executives said 70 percent of employees use AI, at the carrier's fifth Impact Summit in Sandy Springs.

Austin City Council is weighing zoning and resource rules for AI data centers before a hyperscale site is proposed.

AMR and AI warehouse system deployment across Gwinnett, Fulton and Clayton counties rose about 40 percent.

TRAIGA took effect January 1, 2026 and reaches any company deploying AI systems used by Texas residents.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle spent $448.3B on capex in 2025, up from $162.3B in 2022.

Georgia firms are using AI for writing, marketing, accounting and hiring, a state tech report finds.

B2B teams are tracking first-meeting-to-qualified-opportunity conversion as AI cuts booking costs.