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Selling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.

133 points•nr378•10 days ago•58 comments•
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He cleaned one NYC block every day for 100 days. Now Washington Heights neighbors are gardening alongside him.

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Every company should have to trace to a real human who's on the hook for its behavior. Today they don't.

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The first major DSA courtroom fight now has an American litigant in the room.

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Flock is in the hot seat in Washington, even if its CEO declined to actually face senators at a hearing about its "AI Surveillance Network" on Wednesday. "There's many players in this industry, but there's one name that really stands out above the rest, and that is Flock," Senate Judiciary crime and counterterrorism subcommittee chair Josh Hawley (R-MO) said. "If you haven't heard of Flock, all I have to say is, Flock's probably heard of you." Though the CEOs of Flock and peer companies Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Verkada declined to testify, according to Hawley, seats in the hearing room were in high demand. A standby line stretched dow … Read the full story at The Verge.

0 points•Lauren Feiner•7 days ago•0 comments

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