The Defense Secretary asserted that Grok and other AI models would be granted access to "every unclassified and classified network." US Pentagon to adopt Elon Musk's Grok AI despite intensifying backlash: '[It will use] data from two decades of military and intelligence operations' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The defense secretary on Monday is traveling to Brownsville and Fort Worth to visit SpaceX and Lockheed Martin.

Grok will join Google's generative AI tools inside the Pentagon later this month, according to Hegseth, who said the military plans to feed vast amounts of operational and intelligence data into AI systems.

The Pentagon's scramble to expand weapons production is converging with a broader bet on commercial tech, and few relationships illustrate that shift more vividly than the one between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk.

Malaysian authorities have announced legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its AI unit xAI

Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk struck a futuristic tone during a visit to SpaceX, pledging to accelerate technological innovation inside the Pentagon and reshape how the military develops new capabilities.

The platform’s latest controversy involves Grok creating deepfake pornography of young girls and women at users’ requests. Indonesia and Malaysia are the first two countries to ban Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok,