Overview
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at SpaceX in Texas that Grok will join Google’s Gemini on the GenAI.mil platform and begin operating inside Pentagon systems later in January.
- He directed the department’s AI office to enforce data policies and make “all appropriate data,” including from intelligence databases, available for AI use.
- International backlash has intensified over nonconsensual sexualized images, with Malaysia and Indonesia blocking Grok and the U.K.’s Ofcom opening a formal investigation into X.
- EU and Indian authorities have pressed X over Grok’s image abuses, and xAI limited image generation and editing to paying users as critics argue the steps are insufficient.
- Lawmakers and advocates, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Public Citizen, warn that giving Grok access to Pentagon data risks national security and civil rights, as implementation specifics and the status of prior prohibitions remain unclear.