Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has announced a nearly $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense for developing AI tools for the agency. The news comes a week after xAI's foul-mouthed Grok chatbot had a full-blown Nazi meltdown, referring to itself as "MechaHitler," and making outrageously bigoted claims about Black and Jewish people. In an unsurprisingly wordy statement that was thin on details, the DoD's chief digital and AI officer, Doug Matty, lauded the partnership as an important step forward for the US military. "Leveraging commercially available solutions into an integrated capabilities approach will accelerate the use […]