'Disgrace': Furor as Pete Hegseth's Pentagon partners with Elon Musk

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the owner of the social media app X, has faced a mountain of outrage in recent weeks as his platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot “Grok” has been used to generate sexualized deepfake images of non-consenting women and children, and Musk himself has embraced open white nationalism.

But none of this seems to be of particular concern to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Despite the swirl of scandal, he announced on Monday that Musk’s chatbot would be...