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 ...

An extremely eventful week for Grok And X, streaming takes a bigger bite of TV time, luxury brands should remember high-end ...

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 ...

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

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has moved away from its recent antisemitic controversy to introduce anime-style AI companions. On ...

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

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has been plagued by controversy recently over its responses to users, raising questions about how tech companies seek to moderate content from ...

For an administration that is ostensibly so worried about anti-Semitism that it is trying to dismantle several universities, hiring avowed anti-Semite MechaHitler as a DOD contractor certainly seems ...

But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: It started saying its ...