I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend
I’m not proud of my conversations with Ani. | Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Earlier this week, xAI added what can only be described as an AI anime girlfriend named Ani to its Grok chatbot. Which is how I ended up on a virtual starry beach as an AI
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The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company's technological advances.
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GM will send batteries — new and old — to Redwood Materials, which will assemble them into large packs capable of supporting data centers and the grid.
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As Elon Musk once said, "We dug our own grave with Cybertruck."
Read moreCall of Duty cheaters complain after Activision launches new wave of mass-bans
The video game giant banned an unknown number of cheaters that were using one of the oldest-running cheats.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary said Nvidia's plans to start selling its H20 chips are tied to ongoing trade discussions with China regarding REEs.
Read moreGoogle rolls out AI-powered business calling feature, brings Gemini 2.5 Pro to AI Mode
The new business calling feature uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf, for information about availability and pricing.
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Former Waymo engineers have launched an autonomous vehicle startup with $80 million in venture funds.
Read moreThe Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
So long and thanks for all the bits!
Read moreEvaluating and lowering AI hallucination cost
AI models hallucinate, and always will [1]. In some sense this is nothing new: everything has an error rate. But what is new is the nature of AI errors. The output of an AI is plausible by construction [2], and so errors can look reasonable even when they’re wrong. For
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