Pentagon is embracing Musk’s Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

AI-generated image: NORAD war room based on the movie War games 1983. Image source: Easy-Peasy.AI. CC BY 4.0 (upscaled and cropped). Article by  Konstantin Toropin and David Klepper. AP News – January 12, 2026.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology. “Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” Hegseth said in a speech at Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX, in South Texas. […]

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