Ani’s rise showed how chatbots became partners instead of tools, driving a year of AI intimacy and its human consequences.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has made a bold and unexpected debut with a controversial new feature: AI companions, developed by his startup xAI. This latest Grok update combines anime aesthetics, ...

"We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." ...

The rise of generative AI has brought intense debate over how much responsibility chatbot companies bear for the impact of ...