Elon Musk's AI tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, US govt says in legal briefing

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen Tuesday by _AFP._

The June 15 brief defends the gas turbines used by a giant data centre belonging to the trillionaire’s company xAI, which are the target of an environmental lawsuit.

In the brief, the US Department of Justice argued that the lawsuit…

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Elon Musk's AI tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran: US govt

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen Tuesday by _AFP._

The June 15 brief defends the gas turbines used by a giant data centre belonging to the trillionaire’s company xAI, which are the target of an environmental lawsuit.

In the brief, the US Department of Justice argued that the lawsuit…

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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: April 2026: Atrocities 867-930

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights,…

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Karachi's Shahrah-i-Bhutto to be fully open to public by end of May: Sharjeel Memon

The Sindh government will fully open the Shahrah-i-Bhutto Expressway in Karachi to the public by the end of May, Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Memon said on Thursday.

Shahrah-i-Bhutto Expressway is a 39-kilometre high-speed corridor in Karachi that was noted to be 88.2 per cent complete as of March. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had earlier this year directed the local government…

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Top U.S. Military Officer Shatters Trump’s Biggest Claims on Iran War

Not even the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. can confidently support President Trump’s claims that the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is over, let alone that the United States is winning.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were questioned about their half a trillion dollar funding request for the Iran war at a Senate Appropriations hearing…

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Can City of Alameda trust Flock Safety?

💡tl;dr summary: This coming Tuesday's City Council meeting will involve an annual review of Alameda Police Department's use of automated license plate readers. It's time to ask critical questions.

Since first selling automated license plate readers to homeowners associations in Florida, Flock Safety has been vigorously executing the playbook to scale a venture-backed tech startup. The company's…

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Ex-DOGE Staffer Admits the Whole Thing Was a Total Bust

The DOGE bros responsible for cutting over 317,000 federal jobs and thousands of grants continue to show they had no idea what they were doing and no remorse for the damage done.

The depositions of two of the bros, Nathan Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, were published on YouTube last week by the plaintiffs of a suit who hope to restore some of the cuts made to the National Endowment for the…

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Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War

Kash Patel baselessly fired an elite team of agents specializing in foreign threats from the Middle East just days before Donald Trump launched an illegal military campaign in Iran.

Patel terminated a dozen employees and staff after accusing them—without providing evidence—of improperly investigating Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The FBI…

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How to Build Pro-Worker Governance in Cleveland

Rust Belt cities like Cleveland face a much more hostile landscape for passing pro-worker policies than major cities like New York. But a range of policy options is available to legislators who want to take advantage of them.


A protest in support of doctors fired by University Hospitals for union organizing and advocating for patient care on July 30, 2025, in Cleveland. (Duane Prokop…

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