When Elon Musk's Grok AI had a Nazi meltdown the other month and started calling itself "MechaHitler," the General Services Administration — the agency in charge of government technology — quietly dropped its plans to use it by removing it from a list of approved vendors.
Now, it looks like the White House has swooped in to change that. Wired reports that the executive branch has ordered GSA leaders to deploy the notoriously foulmouthed chatbot across the federal workforce as quickly as possible.
"Team: Grok/xAI needs to go back on the schedule ASAP per the WH," reads an email obtained by Wired sent by Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service. "Can someone get with Carahsoft on this immediately and please confirm?" he added, referring to a contractor that resells t