Amazon’s Ring announced partnerships with both Flock Safety and Axon, marking a dramatic reversal of its January 2024 commitment to limit police access to user footage. The partnerships enable law enforcement agencies to request Ring doorbell camera footage through third-party platforms …
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Palantir Technologies received a $30 million contract to deliver ImmigrationOS, an AI platform that integrates previously-segregated government databases including IRS tax records, Social Security files, passport records, and license-plate reader data for immigration enforcement. The system, to be …
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In early April 2025, In-Q-Tel announced its 800th investment since the CIA venture capital arm’s founding in 1999, marking a major expansion of intelligence community financial entanglement with private technology companies. The milestone investment came as In-Q-Tel broadened its focus beyond …
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Anduril Industries announced deployment of its 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower (AST) along the southern U.S. border, significantly expanding its AI-powered surveillance infrastructure for Customs and Border Protection. The deployment includes the Extended Range Sentry Tower, featuring an 80-foot …
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded Anduril Industries a $25 million contract for autonomous surveillance towers (ASTs) along the U.S.-Mexico border, with plans to deploy 200 towers by 2022 in a relationship worth more than $200 million. The AST system combines Anduril’s radar-equipped …
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On June 27, 2019, Axon announced it would not commercialize facial recognition technology for body cameras following recommendations from its AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board. The board’s first major report concluded that “facial recognition simply isn’t good enough right …
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On July 1, 2009, In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures simultaneously invested in Recorded Future, a startup founded by Christopher Ahlberg that specialized in using artificial intelligence to monitor the open web, dark web, and social media to predict future events. Each firm invested under $10 million in …
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