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The secretary delivered the speech at SpaceX and emphasized AI advancement as reported.
Available secondary sources, including a reposted War Department news release, clearly state that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered an address at SpaceX headquarters in Starbase, Texas, where advancement of artificial intelligence within the War Department was a key focus of his remarks. However, direct access to the primary source on the official war.gov domain is currently blocked by an access-control error, and an alternative republication on PublicNow is repeatedly timing out, preventing full verification from original or officially mirrored documents.
Because technical issues are preventing access to the primary government source that would definitively confirm the exact language and context, the verdict is Tech Error: the claim appears consistent with secondary evidence, but cannot be fully verified from primary sources at this time due to access limitations.