Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM

The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.

Remember HQ? ‘Quiz Daddy’ Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a daily mobile game show

The former HQ host Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a live mobile game show that he’s building on his own terms.

Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate

A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game “Baldur’s Gate.”

Lucid Motors slashes 12% of its workforce as it seeks profitability

The layoffs affect hundreds of full-time workers in the US, according to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch.

AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: faster, cheaper, lonelier

AI expands access to filmmaking for resource-constrained creators. But as efficiency becomes the industry’s north star, creativity risks being overwhelmed by a deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content.

Peak XV raises $1.3B, doubles down on AI as global VC rivalry in India heats up

Peak XV says most of its new capital will target India as the firm prioritizes AI, fintech and cross-border bets while navigating recent partner departures.

Why investors are going gaga over solid-state transformers

The technology promises to replace several parts of the grid with one device that’s both controllable and updatable.

An AI data center boom is fueling Redwood’s energy storage business

Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.

Bug in student admissions website exposed children’s personal information

Ravenna Hub, which lets parents apply and track the status of their kids’ applications across thousands of schools, allowed any logged-in user to access the personally identifiable data associated with any other user, including their children.

For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier but maintaining them is just as hard.