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The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M dollars
- hunglee2 1y agoMilitary-Civilian fusion, with US characteristics
- greatgib 1y agoMusk 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?
- lenkite 1y agoThis is merely standard operating procedure for Washington, no matter who is in power.
- bananapub 1y agoer, 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”.
- Mountain_Skies 1y ago[flagged]
- saubeidl 1y ago[citation needed]
- throwaway290 1y agoTapper wrote a book about it.
- billy99k 1y agoI doubt it. There are also contracts with the other major AI providers.
- ImJamal 1y agoProbably 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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- nioj 1y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565416
- saubeidl 1y ago"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
- Mountain_Skies 1y agoWeird 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.
- saubeidl 1y ago> together with belligerent nationalism
- blogabegonija 1y ago[dead]
- heisgone 1y ago"xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI."