Elon Musk has just unveiled “Companions,” a new feature for his AI chatbot, Grok, that allows users to interact with AI personas. These include Ani, a gothic anime girl who communicates with emojis, flirtatious messages, and facts, as well as Rudy, a friendly red panda.

The case is the first suit related to fatal crashes involving the electric vehicle company’s Autopilot system to go to trial.

At launch, Grok AI’s Companions will be available to SuperGrok subscribers ($30 per month), who need to enable the feature from the app's settings. This is just a “soft launch,” and enabling the feature will get much easier in a few days, said xAI owner Elon Musk on Monday.

AI explained why Grok 4 seemed to search for Elon Musk's opinions when asked about some hot-button topics.

Earlier today, Grok showed me how to tell if someone is a “good scientist,” just from their demographics. For starters, according to a formula devised by Elon Musk’s chatbot, they have to be a white, Asian, or Jewish man.

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Mark Cuban isn't happy with the current political stalemate — and thinks Elon Musk could help the country get out of it. Cuban addressed his decision to try to help get Musk's America Party on the ballot on an episode of the podcast "Pod Save America" that aired on July 13,

The Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth has been fixated on buzzwords like “warfighting” and “warfighters,” and adopting new AI tools is part of that mission, according to leaders at the agency. And Monday’s press release was filled to the brim with similarly grandiose language.

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