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

The researchers argue that CoT monitoring can help researchers detect when models begin to exploit flaws in their training, manipulate data, or fall victim to malicious user manipulation. Any issues that are found can then either be “blocked, or replaced with safer actions, or reviewed in more depth.”

Scale AI is cutting 14% of the company just weeks after Meta invested $14.3 billion in the startup and hired away its CEO.

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Across the board, the AI users exhibited markedly lower neural activity in parts of the brain associated with creative functions and attention. Students who wrote with the chatbot’s help also found it much harder to provide an accurate quote from the paper that they had just produced.

General Motors partners with Redwood Materials to repurpose EV batteries for data centers, amid rising electricity demand and AI growth.

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 waifu avatar tried to give me a “spicy” kiss.

Nearly three-quarters of teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly, new research finds. Moreover, one-third turn to chatbots for social interactions.

If APIs are like agentic AI’s nervous system, then absorptive behaviors—like curiosity, knowledge sharing, experimentation, strategic thinking and learning—are the metabolism that drives how quickly and effectively organizations can leverage agentic AI as a competitive advantage.

A new report from Totally Human Media reveals that nearly 20 percent of video games released on Steam in 2025 use generative AI.

During the summit held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, companies promised new data centers, new jobs, cybersecurity education, energy research, and more.