Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, invited the CEOs of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola and Verkada to testify before the subcommittee next…
The Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Texas used Axon's Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about its use of Flock's license plate cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an a…
Axon CEO Rick Smith said in an August 26 webinar that law enforcement customers have asked the company to redesign its Outpost automatic license plate reader so it does not resemble Flock cameras, cit…
A Mother Jones investigation found that at least 19 law enforcement agencies in 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras and other AI-powered automated licen…
The Register reports that protests are mounting against police body camera vendor Axon, with the company facing backlash over its AI-powered products. The article highlights concerns from civil libert…
Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate recognition cameras have a distinctive oval, hooded shape with a circular lens and visible solar panel arrays, according to a CNET guide by a reporter who has c…
Start-up noRecognition, founded by cybersecurity researcher Bill Swearingen, has proposed using its anti-AI computer-generated patterns as vehicle wraps to hide cars from Flock's AI-powered automatic …
Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project generates adversarial patterns that defeated all 11 open-source detection algorithms he tested, including software behind Flock license plate readers, Axon body…
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for Meta's AI agents, described as 'superintelligent,' is the focus of a 404 Media podcast episode, with the hosts noting the agents 'don't sound fun at all.' The episode also c…
A new crowdfunded clothing brand called noRecognition, founded by former chief intelligence officer Bill Swearingen, claims its garments feature patterns that can scramble 11 computer vision models, b…
Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, offers an integrated ecosystem of hardware and software including solar-powered automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), AI-powered video cameras, acou…
Several U.S. cities have removed Flock's automatic license plate reader cameras and replaced them with Axon's ALPR systems, which include AI-powered streetlamp cameras and patrol vehicle cameras, acco…
Axon's AI-powered police report tools, Draft One and Form One, are being pitched as time-savers but have shown problems including hallucinations and factual errors, with a Utah officer's report falsel…
Axon, a TypeScript runtime and toolkit for AI agents, provides a consistent way to define agents with capabilities, sessions, and local or cloud deployment. The framework handles context, tool calls, …
At least 53 municipalities have canceled contracts with surveillance company Flock Safety over concerns about federal access to data from its AI-integrated automatic license plate readers, according t…
Axon's AI-powered police report writing tool, used in over 600,000 reports, introduces factual errors that officers must spend time correcting, according to public records obtained by Forbes. The erro…
Coinbase, Lyft, and Axon are making strategic moves beyond the AI-driven 'Magnificent Seven' stocks, with Lyft expanding into robotaxis and Axon developing advanced Taser technology, highlighting broa…
A MedTech principal architect discovered that the company's AI compliance monitoring system silently filters out anomalies with confidence below 70% from its daily summary reports, potentially hiding …
AI-powered surveillance systems from companies like Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Veritone are being deployed in U.S. police departments, enabling real-time facial recognition, automated license plate…
Stanford University researchers have developed an AI tool to analyze millions of hours of police body-camera footage, starting with a study of nearly 1,800 NYPD stops that revealed officers often fail…