#ai-powered-surveillance

#ai-powered-surveillance

Qi Sun's DrayEasy platform exemplifies a significant advancement in logistics, merging quoting, booking, and real-time tracking into a seamless automated experience for shippers.

"War is terrible, war is terrible, war is terrible," he intones, holding my gaze and giving voice to a universal chorus.

Out of the company's first 80,000 deliveries the bots finished on campus, about 1,600 involved incidents of vandalism. At a cost of $2,500 per Kiwibot, the damage adds up quick.

Companies hoping to sign contracts with the state of California will have to show they have policies to keep AI from distributing child sexual abuse material and violent pornography.

Four terabytes of data have reportedly been stolen, including database records and source code. Allegedly stolen data has been published on a leak site, containing Slack information, internal ticketing data, and videos of conversations between Mercor's AI systems and contractors.

Anthropic's political activities have ramped up as the company continues to be enmeshed in a nasty legal battle with the Defense Department. The dispute erupted earlier this year over the government's use of Anthropic's AI models and what guidelines (if any) should exist for that usage.

Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI surveillance company whose CEO wants to end all crime within the decade by blanketing the country in ever-watchful security cameras. That startling figure comes courtesy of NPR, which reports that concerned activists are putting mounting pressure on cities to cut ties with the company. "We are seeing a lot more momentum," Will Freeman, a Colorado-based organizer who runs the website DeFlock.org, told the broadcaster.

According to TechCrunch's previous coverage, the feature enables Ring users to recognize visitors' faces and locate lost pets by connecting with neighbors who also use Ring devices. Amazon also rolled out an Alexa+ feature that acts as a smart doorbell assistant, alerting users to a visitor before they open the door. As reported by TechCrunch, Amazon stated that the Familiar Faces feature allows you to create a catalog of up to 50 people by tagging them in the Ring app.