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Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors want tech companies to pay for new power plants

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants. Together, they’re “urging” PJM to hold an “emergency” auction for companies to procure electricity over 15-year contracts. The unusually […]

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Fortnite blocks creators from selling prize wheel spins

Epic Games is making a big change to the rules for Fortnite creators just days after allowing them to publish experiences with in-game transactions. Beginning January 20th, experiences – which Epic Games calls “islands” – will not be able to offer in-island transactions as “a ‘spin’ or ‘increased luck’ for a prize wheel,” according to […]

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Google brings its AI videomaker to Workspace users

Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May, Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace plans can access it, too. Flow uses Google’s AI video generation model Veo 3.1 to generate eight-second clips based on a […]

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Verizon-owned Visible is offering outage credits, too

Customers of Visible Wireless, which is owned by Verizon, may be getting a $5 credit toward their next bill in response to a Verizon cell service outage earlier this week. Verizon customers were offered a $20 credit after the outage. As spotted by 9to5Google, a message sent to Visible customers explains: “Yesterday we let you […]

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Ted Sarandos says Netflix will commit to 45-day theatrical releases

Though Netflix’s plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery has prompted concerns about how the deal might hurt the movie theater business, the streamer’s co-CEO says that there is nothing to worry about. In a new interview with The New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that, should the WBD acquisition go through, the streamer […]

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OpenAI releases a cheaper ChatGPT subscription

OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to Friday’s global release. “In markets where Go has been available, we’ve seen strong adoption and regular everyday use for […]

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