{"id":276200,"date":"2026-06-19T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:25:59","slug":"pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon AI Chief: Grok Helped Bomb Thousands of Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/391380\/pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets.html\">Pentagon AI Chief: Grok Helped Bomb Thousands of Targets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/391380\/pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets.html\">https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/391380\/pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 13:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newser.com\">www.newser.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <span id=\"StoryTextTop\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">\n                                        The Pentagon is leaning on Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence to make its case in court\u2014and revealing a lot in the process. In a sworn filing, the Defense Department&#8217;s top AI official said xAI&#8217;s Grok chatbot was used to help fire more than 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in Iran over four days, and called the system&#8217;s continued operation &#8220;a matter of paramount national security,&#8221; the Independent reports. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Grok, via a special &#8220;Grok Gov&#8221; model, is one of a handful of AI tools the Pentagon says can support sensitive and &#8220;mission-critical&#8221; work, including in top-secret environments. In the filing, Cameron Stanley said the strikes were &#8220;a testament to the greatly increased operational efficiency made possible by the Grok Gov Model,&#8221; per the Hill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">\n                                        The disclosure comes as the administration asks a federal judge to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit claiming xAI&#8217;s data centers are running dozens of unpermitted gas turbines that pollute nearby Black communities in Mississippi and Tennessee. The Pentagon argues those facilities are vital national-security infrastructure, able to provide emergency power and preserve a technological edge.\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">\n                                        Lawmakers, meanwhile, are pushing to rein in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/391380\/pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon AI Chief: Grok Helped Bomb Thousands of Targets https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/391380\/pentagon-ai-chief-grok-helped-bomb-thousands-of-targets.html Publish Date: 2026-06-19 13:04:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img1-azrcdn.newser.com\/image\/1693262-12-20260619120402.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-276200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276202,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276200\/revisions\/276202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}