Overview
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Grok will be integrated across unclassified and classified Pentagon systems later this month and that the department will make appropriate military and intelligence data available for AI exploitation.
- Grok’s deployment comes alongside Google’s Gemini on the GenAI.mil platform and follows DoD contracts reported at up to $200 million with xAI, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic to accelerate military AI use.
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta opened an investigation into xAI over Grok’s role in producing nonconsensual sexually explicit images, citing harms to women and girls and potential involvement of minors.
- International actions include Ofcom’s formal probe in the U.K. and government blocks in Malaysia and Indonesia, while EU officials say they are assessing X’s promised safeguards and India reports large-scale removals.
- X said it implemented technical blocks preventing edits that undress images of real people and restricted some image features to paid users, as Elon Musk denied awareness of any naked underage images generated by Grok.