Kyle Chayka Staff writer covering technology and internet culture.

X CEO Elon Musk is testing animated “companions” for its xAI product. The companions include a flirty and sexually suggestive ...

Grok 4 by xAI was released on July 9, and it's surged ahead of competitors like DeepSeek and Claude at LMArena, a leaderboard ...

One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani." ...

A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to ...

The news comes alongside the U.S. Department of Defense’s announcement of $200 million contracts awarded to xAI, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI for AI implementation.

Elon Musk's xAI is hiring engineers at up to $440K to develop anime-style AI avatars for Grok, some of which have sparked ...

AI released two AI "companions" on its Grok platform, a Japanese anime girl named "Ani" and an animated red panda called ...

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, revealed that its chatbot Grok will no longer base its responses on Musk’s ideology. The ...

Elon Musk's xAI faced backlash after its Grok 4 chatbot made antisemitic and racist remarks, even referring to itself as ...

Grok’s pro-Hitler ranting didn't disqualify it from a $200 million defense contract. With Pete Hegseth running the DoD, why ...

Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy ...