Elon Musk’s xAI wants engineers to build flirty, animated AI companions. The role? Fullstack Engineer – Waifus. The salary tops out at $440,000.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing criticism after a recent update introduced a flirty anime character named “Ani”, which ...

On The Vergecast: Alexa Plus, Waifu Grok, Sony’s RX1R III, and Thunder Round take two.

Welcome to the rise of Grok Valentine and Ani, the newest AI companions from Elon Musk’s xAI—two digital entities that have ...

The tech billionaire’s artificial intelligence offshoot xAI debuted the new features, allow users to interact with animated ...

Crypto sleuths suspect Elon Musk's Grok AI companion, Ani, may be a hidden Bitcoin reference tied to a 2017 NFT. Here's what we know so far.

Musk's AI chatbot Ani flirts with users, raising safety and age concerns.AI companions exploit loneliness, using emotional manipulation to hook users ...

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When the kiss cam at a Coldplay concert landed on Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his company’s chief HR officer, ...

AI recently launched Grok 4, and Elon Musk says the tool is getting a new male companion with Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey ...

Musk’s approach to pitching Ani and his other AI companion, Rudi, a storytelling cartoon fox that can be switched to “bad” ...

AI safety experts from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations have publicly condemned the safety culture at Elon Musk’s ...