Elon Musk's Nazi Robot Just Landed a Contract With the Department of Defense

[highplainsdem]

Source: Gizmodo

The U.S. Department of Defense announced new contracts with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI on Monday that will give the federal agency access to the latest AI agents. The contract with each company has a ceiling of $200 million, and while it’s not surprising that DoD is pushing hard into AI, the inclusion of Elon Musk’s xAI will raise plenty of eyebrows after Grok’s recent erratic behavior.

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) announced the new contracts in a press release Monday, which notes DoD is “implementing a commercial-first approach to accelerating DoD adoption of AI.”

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The Grok public relations account on X noted the new contract with DoD in a tweet Monday but also introduced a new suite of products called Grok for Government and said its products would be listed on the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule, a huge win for the company that makes Grok available to federal government employees even beyond the Pentagon. “This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products,” the company wrote.

“Under the umbrella of Grok For Government, we will be bringing all of our world-class AI tools to federal, local, state, and national security customers,” the company said in a press release. “These customers will be able to use the Grok family of products to accelerate America – from making everyday government services faster and more efficient to using AI to address unsolved problems in fundamental science and technology.”

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Read more: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-nazi-robot-just-landed-a-contract-with-the-department-of-defense-2000628986

[SheltieLover]

1. So the big feud is a fake?

[highplainsdem]

2. I don't believe the feud is fake. But they still want access to his AI.

[angrychair]

4. Why?

In any sane world would not be doing business with a company that literally created a Nazi AI
Its not a metaphor, they literally created a pro- Nazi AI on purpose.

How can we say we can't give grants to Harvard because of antisemitism but we can give a $200 million dollar contract to "MechaNazi" to help run government.

[highplainsdem]

8. They want the most powerful generative AI model, whosever it is. They don't know yet which will

turn out to be most powerful, so they're giving money to the most likely.

Btw, the Trump regime is not sane and never has been. And they don't really care about antisemitism, are just using that excuse to gain control over higher ed.

[angrychair]

9. Mostly agree

And they don't really care about antisemitism, are just using that excuse to gain control over higher ed.

Of that there should be little doubt.

I get the normal process is to give each an opportunity to make their case but I will still argue that the company that created a pro-Nazi AI on purpose is not the right company to do business with that government.
In any sane world the Nazi AI issue would be cause for a probe by the DOJ and congress itself.

[SheltieLover]

6. Ok

Thx!

[PSPS]

3. Shoveling more taxpayer money to the untaxed billionaire

[slightlv]

11. Anyone else pissed where our

Tax dollars are going?

[highplainsdem]

5. Response on Bluesky from Tom Nichols:

Maybe we can hook it into NORAD and STRATCOM, what could go wrong

— Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social) 2025-07-14T18:15:28.384Z

[Karasu]

7. MechaHitler and the DoD. Great fucking combo there.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Kegsbreath get a piece of the action?

Asking for a fiend.

[Figarosmom]

12. Part of concessions to keep

Musk in line? I wonder if he's still creating his 3rd party?

[Kablooie]

13. That's because it offers a wonderful anime companion.

The DOD just cant pass that up.

[Javaman]

14. hush money to try and shut him up.

probably will work.

they are all opportunist sycophants.

[WmChris]

15. What data theft

Seems a use has been found for the free data on citizens. Now the overlords will have the tools to drill down and crush opponents. Might have the plan along. How's that for a conspiracy plot?