{"id":206871,"date":"2026-04-28T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/its-going-to-make-a-big-difference-braun-announces-new-program-to-help-indiana-businesses-use-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:50:14","slug":"its-going-to-make-a-big-difference-braun-announces-new-program-to-help-indiana-businesses-use-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/its-going-to-make-a-big-difference-braun-announces-new-program-to-help-indiana-businesses-use-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s going to make a big difference&#8217; | Braun announces new program to help Indiana businesses use AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/indiana\/indiana-governor-mike-braun-artificial-intelligence-ai-initiative-business\/531-30a8ec51-e09d-4bb0-92f8-f95e6dec7792\">&#8216;It&#8217;s going to make a big difference&#8217; | Braun announces new program to help Indiana businesses use AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/indiana\/indiana-governor-mike-braun-artificial-intelligence-ai-initiative-business\/531-30a8ec51-e09d-4bb0-92f8-f95e6dec7792\">https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/indiana\/indiana-governor-mike-braun-artificial-intelligence-ai-initiative-business\/531-30a8ec51-e09d-4bb0-92f8-f95e6dec7792<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-28 18:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wthr.com\">www.wthr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indiana has launched a new statewide initiative called &#8220;IN AI&#8221; designed to help Hoosier businesses adopt artificial intelligence to create new jobs and enhance wages.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Mike Braun envisions Indiana becoming the most AI-ready state in the nation through this program.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to support small businesses, particularly those on \u201cMain Street Indiana,\u201d by offering AI training resources and connecting companies with students from Indiana universities for AI projects.<\/li>\n<li>The program plans to reach one million Hoosier employees and work with thousands of employers through a dedicated website, outreach roadshows, and virtual sessions.<\/li>\n<li>Criticisms of the initiative highlight concerns about the impact of AI on existing jobs and the environmental effects of the data centers required to support AI infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>State Representative Ed DeLaney and the Indiana AFL-CIO have called for a more in-depth study on the potential impacts of AI and the development of necessary data centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s going to make a big difference&#8217; | Braun announces new program to help Indiana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.tegna-media.com\/assets\/WTHR\/images\/fbed07e5-3542-442f-b0c3-b4725082b0b3\/20260428T223226\/fbed07e5-3542-442f-b0c3-b4725082b0b3_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-206871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206871"}],"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=206871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206873,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206871\/revisions\/206873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}