an animated AI companion from a startup with roots in Seattle and a host of big-name tech backers. Portola is the company behind the alien creatures who are out to become our new virtual best friends.

Indeed, photos of the chips have a bit of an alien design, as if H.R. Giger's career took a detour into electronics design. That's not entirely surprising; researchers including Harvard's Avi Loeb ...

Do you not get that alien vibe at all?” Carlson asked. White laughed and told Carlson ... what my theories on AI are and how we should, you know — I know my role there,” White asserted.

The AI model's current output is small electromagnetic structures, but looking to the future, researchers will likely use these and similar findings to develop ever-more complex circuits by ...