Noreva Sees AI Data Centers Helping Push Gas Above $10 at Some US Hubs
1. Noreva Warns AI Data Centers Are Boosting Gas Demand, With Prices at Some US Hubs Forecast to Top $10 per Million BTUs Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are planning gigawatt-scale natural-gas power plants to supply their AI data centers with cheap, steady electricity.
2. Woman joins lawsuit against xAI, alleges stepfather used Grok to turn childhood photo into more than 7,000 explicit images A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit brought by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI, alleging that her stepfather used the company’s Grok chatbot to create more than
3. SpaceX Officially Completes Cursor Acquisition; Cursor Says It Will Tap SpaceX’s GPU Infrastructure SpaceX has completed its acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding startup said in a company blog post, formally bringing the developer-tool maker into Elon Musk’s space and computing company.
In Brief
- OpenAI Names New Revenue Chief as Denise Dresser Departs Chief revenue officer Denise Dresser plans to leave OpenAI in the coming weeks, following former COO Brad Lightcap’s announced exit two days earlier. Dali Rajic, president and COO of cybersecurity company Wiz, will take over the role.
- Google Open-Sources a Compiler for Encrypted AI Inference Google introduced HEIR, an open-source compiler toolchain that converts pretrained AI models to operate on homomorphically encrypted inputs. Google demonstrated private recommendation, fraud-detection, network-anomaly and hotword models compiled with the system.
- Codex for the ChatGPT Linux App Enters Preview Codex in the ChatGPT desktop application for Linux is now available in preview, according to an OpenAI community announcement.
- Four US States Have Enacted Bans on AI Personhood Idaho, North Dakota, Utah and Tennessee have enacted laws preventing AI from receiving legal personhood, while Tennessee’s statute explicitly excludes AI systems and machines from the definition of a person. A Missouri proposal failed in committee, and an Ohio bill remains pending.
- Indonesia Opens Its First University-Based AI Technology Center Universitas Gadjah Mada, telecom operator Indosat and NVIDIA launched an AI center in Yogyakarta that gives researchers and students access to accelerated computing, models and technical mentorship. Its initial projects target tuberculosis screening, precision agriculture and disaster response.
- Roche Partners With Evido on an AI Test for Liver-Fibrosis Risk Danish health-tech startup Evido developed LiverPRO, which estimates liver-fibrosis risk from a patient’s age and nine routine blood biomarkers and is being commercialized with Roche. WIRED reports that an analysis of more than 470,000 middle-aged people found it outperformed the commonly used Fib-4 index in predicting serious liver problems.
- DreamX-Phi Predicts Robot-Manipulation Outcomes From Actions DreamX-Phi 1.0 is a video world model that predicts future observations from a camera frame, language instruction and prescribed robot-arm actions. Its authors report first and second place in two WorldArena 2.0 challenge tracks and say weights and inference code will be released after the competition concludes.
- Intern-S2 Targets Long-Horizon Scientific Agent Tasks Intern-S2-Preview combines scientific multimodal pretraining, reinforcement learning and tool-oriented agent training in models including a 397-billion-parameter version. Its authors report competitive or leading benchmark results and say a separate 4-billion-parameter memory extension improved one biology-instruction score without changing the frozen main model.