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🪖 Elon Musk’s Grok is getting access to classified military networks
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Back in December, Elon Musk’s pet chatbot Grok made headlines for casually distributing the private addresses and phone numbers of everyday people, scraping data from public sources with unsettling ease while other AI models refused. Now, that same model is being welcomed into a far more sensitive arena.
This week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Grok will be integrated into the Pentagon’s classified systems later this month as part of a sweeping, department-wide initiative to weaponize AI.
During a speech delivered to SpaceX employees at the company’s facility in Brownsville, Texas, Hegseth said he envisions a military AI that will operate “without ideological constraints that limit lawful military applications.” The Pentagon’s AI “will not be woke,” he added. Read more
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🫣 AI for the introverts (link)
💸 Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing (link)
🧠 OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs (link)
💰 The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China (link)
🔇 All’s quiet on the xAI investor front (link)
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📸 Kutt: Create AI talking avatars from photos and videos (link)
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🗃 AnyToURL: Share files via short URLs with AI malware scanning (link)
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