We build AI systems to mimic the human brain: writing emails, answering questions and predicting what comes next. But new research aims to turn that relationship around—using large language models ...

Terminally online right wing dorks are falling head over heels for an AI-generated waifu — and setting themselves up to get scammed in the process. The damsel at the center of all their fawning is ...

Razer doesn't know exactly what it's creating, but it still wants you to put money down on its desktop AI gadget. Reading time 4 minutes PC and peripherals maker Razer believes that somebody, ...

Last year Razer showed off Project Ava as a digital assistant that lived inside your computer to help adjust settings or provide gaming tips. But now at CES 2026, the company’s AI companion platform ...

If you had “holographic anime girlfriends” on your CES 2026 bingo card, congratulations; you are both unhinged and correct. I personally did not see this trend coming, but after walking the show floor ...

WTF?! Razer has continued its tradition of unveiling weird and (occasionally) wonderful products at CES with an AI waifu gaming-coach hologram. The device is an expansion of its Project Ava AI gaming ...

Alkaline Trio released their new song “Surprise Surprise,” the final track in a trilogy recorded with producer Travis Barker of blink-182. Taking inspiration from a friend who persevered against ...

This summer, there’s no pop-star accessory like a legendary onstage guest. A-listers from Olivia Rodrigo to Sabrina Carpenter to Gracie Abrams to Drake have scored some of 2025’s most talked-about ...

My desk has a lot of screens on it already. For starters, there is my main monitor, which I work and game on. Then I have a mini portable monitor underneath, which doubles up as a touch screen ...

One of the weirder bits of news on the AI front this week has been Elon Musk’s rollout of sexually-charged animated chatbots. Officially called “companions” — or by the slangier “waifus,” a Japanese ...

Elon Musk’s xAI just released its AI companions, which include the goth waifu Ani and the homicidal red panda Bad Rudy. If you want to get in on that, you’re in luck: The company is hiring for the ...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is offering a lucrative sum of money to engineers who can develop AI anime girl avatars as part of the company's artificial intelligence model, Grok's ...