A sworn declaration from the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer confirms a federal-only build, Grok Gov, was wired into US targeting systems during operations against Iran, helping deploy more than 2,000 munitions against 2,000 distinct targets over 96 hours.
What makes it notable is how it surfaced: the declaration landed in a Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's Mississippi data center, where the DOJ is arguing that disrupting xAI would harm national security. So a commercial chatbot vendor's role in live targeting came out as a side effect of an environmental case, not through any defense channel.
Source : https://aiweekly.co/alerts/pentagon-confirms-grok-guided-2000-iran-strikes
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