The Pentagon awards $200 million contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to develop AI systems for US defense and national security operations

Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI — will help the DOD develop AI workflows for key national security missions.

The Pentagon has awarded $800 million in AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI to enhance military, intelligence.

The announcement comes days after Grok spewed antisemitic and racist statements to its users, including praise for Adolf Hitler and “the white man.” It also referred to itself as “MechaHitler.” The debacle kick-started a wave of celebration amongst online extremists, many of whom called for the creation of more hateful AI chatbots.

The Pentagon is set to spend nearly a billion dollars for AI with four major Silicon Valley tech firms, Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has invested $2 billion in his AI company xAI, marking one of its largest outside investments to date, according to The Wall Street Journal. The investment is part of xAI’s $5 billion equity round and deepens financial ties across Musk’s ventures,