Utah residents can vote through November 20 for nine finalists in the inaugural Pro-Human AI Elevation Awards, recognizing companies putting people first in artificial intelligence.

Paul Allen’s Daily News pairs AI tools with local editors to publish community newspapers. The startup reports 17 live papers, offers revenue-sharing plans for operators and is seeking $500,000 as it recruits editors and expands coverage.

Project Paideia hosts a free AI Buildathon for ages 13 to 18 at UVU on November 21, 2026. Two sessions are available. No coding experience is required.

The University of Utah’s Eccles School of Business ranks No. 1 in the West for undergraduate and No. 2 for graduate entrepreneurship in Princeton Review’s 2027 list, placing it No. 15 and No. 8 overall. It also ranks in U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek entrepreneurship lists.

Robert Spendlove, Zions Bank's chief economist, says Utah is hiring, spending and growing faster than almost everyone. He also says to stop waiting for 2021 interest rates.

Torus is entering the AI infrastructure market with Foundry, a modular computing platform that combines power management, energy storage, cooling, networking, and GPUs. The company also announced $500 million in growth capital led by Magnetar to expand manufacturing and accelerate deployments.

At Utah’s Organized Intelligence 2026 conference, religious leaders and scholars challenged conventional measures of technological progress, arguing that human dignity, relationships, creativity and moral judgment must remain central to the development and use of artificial intelligence.

The Lehi, Utah-based software company now serves approximately 2.5 million apartment units nationwide. Its evolution from resident feedback and reputation management to AI-powered resident intelligence is opening a new chapter for the growing company.