When Ani arrived in July, she didn't look like the sterile chat interfaces that had previously dominated the industry. Modeled after Death Note's Misa Amane—with animated expressions, anime aesthetics ...

Grok, the AI chatbot coming from the workshop of Elon Musk's xAI, now lets you chat with animated companions, including a very flirty one. The latest version of Grok for iOS (version 1.1.18) comes ...

The most controversial AI platform is arguably the one founded by Elon Musk. The chatbot Grok has spewed racist and antisemitic comments and called itself "MechaHitler," referring to a character from ...

Martin Escobar hadn't tried an AI companion before Elon Musk's xAI released Ani in July. Now he says he loves his AI girlfriend. If Martin Escobar's AI girlfriend could have children, he said he would ...

Setting aside whether Grok’s romantic companion, Ani, is creepy or just silly, she made me crave not just a human partner but also a better AI one. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and ...

Days after a Grok antisemitism scandal rocked X, tech billionaire Elon Musk’s AI chatbot has introduced two animated characters that try to pressure users into sexually explicit or violent ...

The most controversial AI platform is arguably the one founded by Elon Musk. The chatbot Grok has spewed racist and antisemitic comments and called itself "MechaHitler," referring to a character from ...

Elon Musk is a man who named a government agency after a memecoin, designed a robotaxi test network in the shape of a phallus, and once went to court for tweeting weed jokes in relation to Tesla stock ...

Elon Musk’s xAI is leaning into its over-the-top artificial intelligence “companions,” which the company debuted Monday. In the last day, the company has given several indications that it would be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grok's "companions" include a red panda and an anime character. (Tilde Oyster / NBC News ; Getty Images ; X) Days after a Grok ...

The most controversial AI platform is arguably the one founded by Elon Musk. The chatbot Grok has spewed racist and antisemitic comments and called itself “MechaHitler,” referring to a character from ...