The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M dollars

Posted by 01-_- on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:26AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/news/706855/grok-mechahitler-xai-defense-department-contract

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by hunglee2 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:48AM (#44568919)

Military-Civilian fusion, with US characteristics

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by greatgib on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:48AM (#44569546)

Musk managed once again to steal public subventions...

Am I the only one seeing a kind of bribery attempt with the expectation that Musk will stop publicly asking about the Epstein files?

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by billy99k on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:14AM (#44570336)

I doubt it. There are also contracts with the other major AI providers.

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by lenkite on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @06:17AM (#44569674)

This is merely standard operating procedure for Washington, no matter who is in power.

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by bananapub on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:15AM (#44570340)

er, no, normally random rich guys don’t get to be co-president.

the US has been fairly fucked for a while but the endemic corruption and the deconstruction of the state under Trump is a huge step change, not “lol both sides”.

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by saubeidl on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:22AM (#44570881)

[citation needed]

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by throwaway290 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @01:21PM (#44573592)

Tapper wrote a book about it.

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by ImJamal on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:27PM (#44577002)

Probably not related. From the article:

> xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by nioj on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:54AM (#44570205)

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by saubeidl on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:27AM (#44570435)

"Fascism - A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." - American Heritage Dictionary, 1983

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:01AM (#44570685)

Weird how no one cared about the merger of Silicon Valley and the government pre-Trump. Pretty much every tech CEO had Obama on call, which was seen as a good thing by most here. And then there's what happened during the pandemic, which also was quite popular here on HN.

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by saubeidl on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:05AM (#44570715)

> together with belligerent nationalism

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Re:The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M do... by heisgone on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:36AM (#44571022)

"xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI."

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