{"id":946961,"date":"2025-07-16T08:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946961"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:27:22","slug":"pentagon-awards-200-million-ai-contract-to-elon-musks-xai-amid-antisemitism-furore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/16\/pentagon-awards-200-million-ai-contract-to-elon-musks-xai-amid-antisemitism-furore\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon awards $200 million AI contract to Elon Musk\u2019s xAI amid antisemitism furore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon on Monday announced contracts with billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI, which has faced intense scrutiny in recent days over antisemitic posts by its Grok chatbot. <\/p>\n<p>Announced on Monday by Musk&#8217;s company xAI, the $200 million (\u00a3149m) contract is part of its &#8220;Grok for Government&#8221; programme, and aligns with the Trump administration&#8217;s push for aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence, reported BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon on Monday announced contracts with billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI, which has faced intense scrutiny in recent days over antisemitic posts by its Grok chatbot. Announced on Monday by Musk&#8217;s company xAI, the $200 million (\u00a3149m) contract is part of its &#8220;Grok for Government&#8221; programme, and aligns with the Trump administration&#8217;s push for aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence, reported BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}