The Petersburg Post

Tuesday, Jul 15th, 2025 - July 15 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense has announced contracts with four leading artificial intelligence companies, including Elon Musk's xAI, a week after its Grok chatbot allegedly disseminated racist rhetoric online. The contracts, each with a cap of $200 million, were announced Monday by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office. In a statement , the office said it awarded the contracts to ...

Tuesday, Jul 15th, 2025 - Elon Musk has receded from Washington but one of his most disruptive ideas about government is surging inside the Trump administration. Artificial intelligence, Musk has said , can do a better job than federal employees at many tasks — a notion being tested by AI projects trying to automate work across nearly every agency in the executive branch. The Federal Aviation Administration is exploring whether AI can ...