XRX Research https://www.xrx.studio/research Notes from building an AI character that remembers, feels, and speaks first. en Fri, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Seventy-two hours https://www.xrx.studio/research/seventy-two-hours https://www.xrx.studio/research/seventy-two-hours We spent a week building a character that speaks first, and months learning when it should not. Fri, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Emotion is a record, not an output https://www.xrx.studio/research/emotion-is-a-record https://www.xrx.studio/research/emotion-is-a-record A character has two ways to lie about how it feels. We banned both and had to work out what was left. Fri, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Who owns what the system knows about you https://www.xrx.studio/research/who-owns-what-it-knows https://www.xrx.studio/research/who-owns-what-it-knows It arrived as a memory problem. It turned out to be a question about who the record belongs to. Fri, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT