Palantir and London's policing office withdrew their legal claims, avoiding a January High Court trial over a blocked £50m Met AI contract. Their joint statement says values played no part in the May block, so no court has ruled on a buyer's ethics objections.
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- Builder
- Builder 4%
- Operator
- Operator 46%
- Investor
- Investor 50%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence75
Macron's Paris space summit makes European sovereignty a purchasing question
Delegations from about 120 countries came to Paris to talk business, with SpaceX and Blue Origin absent. What Europe wants to own is the imaging and connectivity it currently buys from American firms.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
Central government's AI disclosure question lands on the bid writer's desk
PPN 017 has applied to central government departments, their agencies and non-departmental bodies since 24 February 2025, and it works by telling buyers what to ask for rather than handing suppliers a new obligation.
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Reality
- Evidence84
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives38
- Confidence68
Florida revokes every highway plate-reader permit with a memo signed by an assistant secretary
Four days earlier, Texas froze the car-insurance fee that paid for at least 3,200 Flock cameras. Neither state needed its legislature, which says something about install bases built on permits and grants.
Reality
- Evidence71
- Adoption79
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives66
- Confidence68
An ASD-endorsed assessor ran the entire JFrog platform against the ISM at Protected level
IRAP produces a report rather than a certificate, so every Australian agency still makes its own Authority to Operate call. What has changed is the scope of what gets assessed: binary storage and model registries, not just the finished app.
Reality
- Evidence26
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives92
- Confidence42
LAPD's Flock reset shows the contract, not the camera, is now the product
The department let its Flock agreement lapse over data ownership, yet 138 city cameras keep filling a cloud it cannot read. The replacement deal is a spec sheet of data terms.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives74
- Confidence63
Flock signed up 40% of American policing. The bill is arriving at city hall.
The camera company has 120,000 license plate readers in 49 states and 7,000 agencies under contract. Dozens of cities and counties have now cut ties, and the hardware is being vandalised.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption87
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives66
- Confidence55