Detroit

Investments include making AI servers in Texas and offering manufacturing training for U.S. businesses in Detroit.

Detroit deployed a beach-cleaning robot on Belle Isle, a popular island park in the Detroit River, to remove debris from sand and waterways while showcasing emerging technology to residents.

Developer Related Companies has agreed to build a more than $7 billion data-center campus on farmland outside Detroit, one of the largest deals yet for this burgeoning real estate class that powers AI.

General Motors will lay off 1,200 workers at its electric-vehicle plant near Detroit and hundreds more at battery facilities.

GM is also placing about 1,200 of the 3,400 workers at its dedicated EV assembly plant in Detroit on indefinite layoff.