{"id":176446,"date":"2026-01-11T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/knox-news-40-under-40-honors-caleb-knight-ai-techx-consortium\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:35:17","slug":"knox-news-40-under-40-honors-caleb-knight-ai-techx-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/knox-news-40-under-40-honors-caleb-knight-ai-techx-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"Knox News 40 Under 40 honors Caleb Knight, AI TechX Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/money\/business\/2026\/01\/11\/knoxville-east-tn-40-under-40-honors-caleb-knight-ai-techx-consortium-university-tennessee\/87011763007\/\">Knox News 40 Under 40 honors Caleb Knight, AI TechX Consortium<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/money\/business\/2026\/01\/11\/knoxville-east-tn-40-under-40-honors-caleb-knight-ai-techx-consortium-university-tennessee\/87011763007\/\">https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/money\/business\/2026\/01\/11\/knoxville-east-tn-40-under-40-honors-caleb-knight-ai-techx-consortium-university-tennessee\/87011763007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-11 04:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.knoxnews.com\">www.knoxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Leadership in AI Initiatives:<\/strong> Caleb Knight, Director of AI TechX at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), is leading innovative AI partnerships to position UTK and Tennessee as global AI powerhouses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Connecting Industries:<\/strong> Knight\u2019s role involves connecting companies with AI technology to drive human-led innovation rather than replacing existing jobs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI TechX Consortium:<\/strong> This initiative facilitates collaborative projects between companies, universities, and entrepreneurs, focusing on creating new, high-quality job roles through AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Economic Growth:<\/strong> Knight&#8217;s efforts emphasize how strategic AI adoption, investment in research, and innovation contribute to job creation and local economic development.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Global Economic Impact:<\/strong> By fostering new AI-driven industries, Knight aims to enhance Tennessee&#8217;s global standing in the technology sector and the broader economy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knox News 40 Under 40 honors Caleb Knight, AI TechX Consortium https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/money\/business\/2026\/01\/11\/knoxville-east-tn-40-under-40-honors-caleb-knight-ai-techx-consortium-university-tennessee\/87011763007\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-11&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/19\/PKNS\/87357233007-knight-caleb-2.jpg?crop=5819,3273,x0,y0&width=3200&height=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176448,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176446\/revisions\/176448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}