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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens urged residents to take precautions and limit outdoor activities until Thursday, saying a plume from an extinguished chemical plant fire in Rockdale County could drift west.

Professors are harnessing generative artificial intelligence as a patient simulator at Emory, as a teaching assistant at Morehouse and for chatbots at Georgia State. But they don't expect it will replace them any time soon.

Atlanta City Council passed two pieces of legislation limiting where data centers can be built. Lawmakers say it’s a broader effort to make Atlanta more pedestrian-friendly in areas with activity.

Denver-based Vantage Data Centers plans to construct two large warehouses stuffed with computer servers near Atlanta in the city of South Fulton, according to recently filed state paperwork.

A new business intelligence dashboard at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that aggregates 11 critical areas of operations data has increased problem-solving. Deemed a success, it will be expanded.

An Atlanta cybersecurity executive who hacked the Gwinnett Medical Center’s computer system in an alleged attempt to boost business for his company has been sentenced to two years of home detention.

The Atlanta Department of Transportation has found that the city had more than 2.1 million shared micro-mobility rides in 2023 — the highest ridership levels for shared bikes and scooters since the pandemic.

A multiyear plan to build up computer science learning and teaching in the Atlanta area has enlisted the participation of school districts, universities, nonprofits and industry partners.

The Technology and Innovation Learning Experience (TILE) program will give $3,000 plus mentorship and training to 13 students from five startups from Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges.

Tyson Morris, the former chief information officer in Chattanooga, Tenn., is the new CIO for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. He’ll guide it through application upgrades and digital transformation work.

Atlanta City Council will consider whether to add data centers to the growing list of developments and businesses banned along the popular Beltline trail loop, a 22-mile set of multiuse trails.

Just over a year since the launch of Atlanta’s new Office of Technology and Innovation, city tech leaders reflect on the role of the office in the city's work to build a broader technology ecosystem.

Atlanta nonprofit, activist and educational leaders will be part of a new ethics council on artificial intelligence co-chaired by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Evolv Technologies, which has sold security scanners to Atlanta-area school districts, exaggerated in marketing materials what its products can do.

The funds will be awarded to the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies over the next five years to support inventors developing microsystems-based point-of-care technologies.

What began as a project to monitor the health of tunnel ventilation systems within the rail network of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, has evolved into a citywide upgrade of building infrastructure.

San Francisco-based Cruise has begun testing its self-driving vehicles in Atlanta. A driver will be behind the wheel in the initial phase as its cars roll through parts of downtown, Midtown and Buckhead.