Lawmakers introduced multiple bills aimed at limiting federal agencies’ use of Flock automatic license plate readers after citing 404 Media reporting. One proposal, the Ban Flock Act, would block federal funding to state and local governments that use the cameras and allow people to sue the federal government. If passed, federal access to Flock data would be restricted, funding tied to usage would be cut off, and agencies could face new deletion and rights-enforcement constraints under related bills.
Nevermind VC Fund launched NVM Ventures in Italy with its NVM Venture Lazio compartment raising €23.6 million in a first close toward a €35 million target. The new compartment plans to fund 10–15 dual-use deeptech startups at Pre-Seed and Seed stages, backed by Lazio Innova’s €18.83 million commitment. As a result, it formalizes an investment platform for frontier dual-use technologies in Lazio, with institutional support aimed at pairing each thesis with specialist teams and enabling emerging managers.
Accenture Federal Services’ Bharat Patel argues that military AI projects fail less because of model design and more because of flawed or incomplete battlefield data, drawing examples from Project Maven and tank sensing efforts. He says Project Maven began in 2017 with lots of data that did not include relevant targets, requiring continuous collection of relevant data to improve real-world performance. The focus shifts toward building end-to-end “pipelines” with standards, governance, testing/evaluation, and ongoing data collection—while outsourcing most implementation work to industry and keeping data management in government hands.
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