The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted 3-0 on Tuesday, Sept. 22 to approve a 10-year, $235 million contract with Axon Enterprise and a separate three-month pilot program placing Axon lice…
The Department of Homeland Security has declined to classify its AI-driven immigration enforcement tools as high-impact, exempting them from the disclosure, impact-assessment, and appeal safeguards re…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation welcomed California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order on AI as a start toward addressing real, present-day harms, while cautioning that the most urgent concerns ar…
President Trump said he supports the use of Flock cameras, a controversial AI-powered surveillance tool, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that "a lot of law enforcement say they really help them…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that the state will revoke all law enforcement license-plate-recognition camera permits on state highways, with all such cameras removed by the end of Septem…
NVIDIA confirmed an agreement to make a major technical leap for cloud gaming in September, targeting specific improvements, while AI search tool Flock introduces a browser-based surveillance engine. …
Flock's AI search tool enables police to monitor up to five cameras simultaneously using an LLM agent embedded in a browser, according to a hands-on guide that details rebuilding the system from its G…
A new report by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-markets nonprofit, claims that the same activist network behind 'No Kings' and anti-Trump protests is now leading opposition to AI data cen…
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…
More than 214 municipal governments have dropped contracts with Flock, the police tech company known for its automatic license plate readers, since 2021, according to Secure Justice, an anti-surveilla…
A Mother Jones investigation found that 19 police agencies in 10 states have spent nearly $1 million from opioid settlement funds on Flock automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), which use AI-powered…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is advancing a broad AI and tech regulation agenda that includes restricting teen social media use, imposing a one-year moratorium on new AI data center construction, an…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul discussed her views on AI, data centers, and tech policy in a Decoder podcast interview, saying she wants AI to be 'less evil' and defending her one-year moratorium on d…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen $30 million in state funding for Flock's AI-powered surveillance cameras, following a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the prior spending was financed th…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, ordered all state agencies to stop funding Flock, the AI surveillance camera company, in an order issued Thursday night, blocking at least $30 million in gran…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on Flock's AI surveillance cameras amid bipartisan backlash, just ahead of a Texas Tribune investigation revealing the state spent over $30 million…
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is campaigning on voter anger over AI data centers and Flock cameras, citing a University of Texas-Austin poll showing her within five points of …
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…
German designer Simon Weckert has created a shirt with a garish pattern, dubbed Digital Camouflage, that exploits weaknesses in AI object detection systems to hide wearers from surveillance cameras, a…