Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is working with a financier to secure up to $12 billion more for its expansion plans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation.

Elon Musk's xAI is reportedly seeking $12 billion in debt financing to buy Nvidia chips and build a massive AI supercluster, signaling an aggressive push to stay competitive in the global AI arms race.

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

Plus, an election-related hack in Arizona, the latest on a rare Wu-Tang Clan album and the distraction of the MLK Jr. document dump.

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

As AI companies continue to push for more polluting data centers to train increasingly energy-intensive AI models, Meta is trying to make big claims about how the tech could solve the climate crisis.

On Tuesday, major artificial intelligence (AI) chip manufacturers, including Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM),

In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, denounced Donald Trump's recent allegations against Barack Obama, calling the Trump administration's claims 'politically motivated to distract from Jeffrey Epstein.' Trum

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.