Posts praising Hitler show the risks of accelerating the nascent technology with little stress testing and few guardrails ...

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Earlier this week, xAI added what can only be described as an AI anime girlfriend named Ani to its Grok chatbot. Which is how ...

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On Wednesday, Elon Musk discussed a new male AI “companion” that his company xAI is developing, which will run on the company ...

SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence company xAI. The investment makes up nearly ...

AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and ...

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

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has sparked controversy with the launch of two new "companion" chatbots, Ani and Bad Rudy ...

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.

On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had signed similar agreements, also with ceilings of $200 million, with industry leaders including Google, Anthropic, and ...

One of the new AI ‘companions’ launched by Elon Musk’s xAI, the company that owns the social media platform X (formerly ...