The US government has confirmed that Elon Musk's AI tool Grok was deployed in military strikes against Iran, disclosing the information in a June 15 legal brief filed in defence of xAI's data centre operations. Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley testified under oath that Grok is integrated into Project Maven (the US military's AI-assisted targeting programme), and that its Maven Smart Systems enabled American forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions against 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during an operation called "Epic Fury." The disclosure emerged incidentally from an environmental lawsuit brought by the NAACP (a US civil rights organisation), which accuses xAI of running unpermitted gas turbines that pollute majority-Black neighbourhoods — a case the Justice Department argued threatens national security by potentially cutting power to AI infrastructure supporting active military operations.