Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to direct missile strikes on Iran, legal filing shows

This is the line being crossed in public for the first time: a commercial chatbot lineage, repackaged as Grok Gov, named in a court filing as part of a live targeting loop. Set the politics aside and the accountability question is the story, because it turns abstract debates about AI in warfare into a concrete question of who owns a bad call. Expect this filing to be cited for years.