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The White House reportedly ordered xAI's Grok to be approved for government use


The White House ordered the GSA to add Grok to its list of approved vendors after some back and forth regarding the governments use of the Elon Musk owned AI chatbot.

Wired is reporting, based on documents obtained by the outlet, that the White House allegedly directed leadership at the General Services Administration (GSA) to include xAI's Grok on its list of approved AI vendors. xAI is owned by Elon Musk and was not included in the slew of approvals the GSA issued in August that saw the agency add OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to its list of vendors. Just this week, OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that ChatGPT spent months discussing and ultimately enabling the suicide of a teen boy.

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