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Pentagon’s $200M Grok Deal: Can Explainable AI Contain Toxic Bias in National Security?This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms,” the Anti-Defamation League cautioned on X, in reaction to Grok’s latest pro-Hitler and antisemitic tirades.
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Defense News on MSNPentagon taps four commercial tech firms to expand military use of AIGoogle, Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI — will help the DOD develop AI workflows for key national security missions.
The Pentagon is set to spend nearly a billion dollars for AI with four major Silicon Valley tech firms, Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic.
The announcement comes days after Grok spewed antisemitic and racist statements to its users, including praise for Adolf Hitler and “the white man.” It also referred to itself as “MechaHitler.” The debacle kick-started a wave of celebration amongst online extremists, many of whom called for the creation of more hateful AI chatbots.
The Pentagon awards $200 million contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to develop AI systems for US defense and national security operations
The adoption of Grok for the Pentagon marks another lucrative government contract obtained by Elon Musk since President Donald Trump took office.
The money behind Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar empire is increasingly flowing in one direction: toward artificial intelligence.
CEO of Tesla Elon Musk said Monday he doesn't support a merger of his automotive company with his AI and technology company xAI, even though Tesla shareholders will vote on making an investment into xAI.