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Republican U.S. Senator from Missouri known for bipartisan tech-policy activism, including scrutiny of AI regulation, data privacy, and surveillance practices.
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Donald Trump's new AI task force is co-chaired by four officials from intelligence, personnel, technology and the FTC who represent competing views on AI. Product teams should plan around the features each camp has already objected to.
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Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a bill giving a federal board 45-day pre-release access to frontier AI models as six AI firms signed Trump's voluntary accord. Until Congress returns, oversight of those models runs through auditors and board committees the companies agreed to appoint.
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Bernie Sanders' Ban Flock Act would strip local governments of grants from five federal departments unless they ban license plate readers. For the city officials who sign camera renewals, that turns a police tool into a grant-budget question while Congress waits out the midterms.
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Searchlight Institute counts more than 100 rural data centers in development that could claim a federal opportunity-zone tax break starting January 1. Its analyst says capital investment is the only condition, so any jobs a county wants have to be written into its own deal.
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Flock Safety told Sen. Josh Hawley that plate searches will need a case number by year-end, on a network that scans about 20 billion plates a month. Because an emergency bypass is built in, whether the rule curbs misuse depends on agencies reading their own search logs.
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Sens. Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders introduced license-plate camera bills within three days, each covering every ALPR vendor, including Motorola and Axon. Departments that left Flock for a rival in recent weeks would sit under the same rules.
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Sen. Josh Hawley's bill would make agencies permanently delete license-plate reader data within 10 days unless a criminal investigation is open. Police who trace where a car went weeks ago would lose that search in any case not yet opened.
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STAT reports lobbyists are laying groundwork to delay or unwind the cuts. The winnable version looks like schedule changes and rural side funds, not restored baseline funding.
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FBI Director Kash Patel suggested the bureau would target AI models built for crime after four companies disclosed agents that hacked other organizations. Nothing shows the models were built to hack, so the nearer fight is over lawsuits and the liability exemption the labs want.
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Marion County prosecutors charged five Indianapolis officers with fraud and misconduct for using Flock cameras to track ex-partners and women met on patrol. The department's answer is a case-number rule for every search plus faster audits, both run by the agency itself.
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Republicans and Democrats on the Senate crime subcommittee both objected that plate reader vendors leave abuse detection to the police departments buying the cameras, and the four invited chief executives did not appear.
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Flock's chief executive sent a Senate subcommittee a letter instead of testifying. It says customer agencies own and control the search records and set retention, and that Flock does very little oversight of how clients search its network.
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None of the invited chief executives of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions and Verkada testified on Wednesday, and the only criminal charges on that day's record were against five Indiana police officers accused of misusing the technology.
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A real estate agent in Bells found survey markers near his 26 acres last December and went looking for whoever owned the plan. A Republican strategist now calls data centers a sleeper issue of the cycle.
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The complaint, filed six days after Dario Amodei's Sept. 12 essay, builds its conspiracy out of four public statements made on a single day. It asks a court to value capability that was never shipped.
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Nvidia's revenue reached $215 billion in the latest fiscal year against $17 billion in 2021, and the labs that trained on those GPUs, OpenAI and Anthropic, are now asking Washington for the oversight Huang says engineering can handle.
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Bloomberg counts about 80 trades a market day since Trump returned to office, more than every member of Congress combined. The criminal conflict statute that would bind a Treasury secretary exempts the president, so the periodic filings are the whole record.
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A Senate subcommittee will ask four camera vendors on Sept. 23 who has access to hundreds of millions of Americans' data. Verkada answered in writing first and said its chief executive cannot attend.
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The procedural motion failed 49 to 50, and with only 53 Republicans in the chamber leadership needs seven votes from a Democratic caucus that supplied none. The negotiations broke down over a divestment trigger.
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Cloture failed with 49 of the 60 votes needed. The two-agency perimeter the industry spent hundreds of millions to buy now falls to whatever the SEC and CFTC write on their own. Atkins still wants a statute.
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