Welcome to the rise of Grok Valentine and Ani, the newest AI companions from Elon Musk’s xAI—two digital entities that have taken Japan by storm and are quietly reshaping the global emotional landscape.

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

AI’s new $300 monthly subscription comes with two AI companions powered by its most capable model to date. I tried them. It got weird.

Grok 4 by xAI was released on July 9, and it's surged ahead of competitors like DeepSeek and Claude at LMArena, a leaderboard for ranking generative AI models. However, these types of AI rankings don't factor in potential safety risks.

Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.

The billionaire has used Trump’s handling of the ‘Epstein files’ issue to repeatedly attack his former ally since their public falling out last month.

The Department of Defense is set to begin using Musk's controversial chatbot Grok, according to a Monday announcement.

Artificial intelligence tools Grok and ChatGPT are the new “cheat codes” to crypto day trading, according to intraday retail traders who have built custom bots that analyze sentiment changes and execute trades.

Moonvalley secures $84 million for Marey AI video model, 'Post Truth' all-AI doc released in theaters, Grok's Avatars go all the way.

The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI development.

ChatGPT, DeepSeek AI, and Grok 4’s forecasting engines are aligned on which token has the best chance of pulling a Pepe-like 1000x rally. All three AI tools pointed to Pepe coin and Remittix ($RTX), a payments-centred low-cap crypto valued at $0.