The company is also being sued by investors who say it exaggerated what the devices could actually do.
Citing a supposed spike in crime, New York State and New York City officials have launched a heavy-handed, police-state-flavored push to increase safety in the city’s subway systems. This has included the controversial deployment of National Guard and State Police units into the city’s tunnels and, more recently, the installation of new surveillance systems. One potential solution to subterranean crime that was recently touted by Mayor Eric Adams is Evolv, a firm that sells AI-powered weapons-detection scanners.
On Thursday, Adams held a press conference in which he announced the installation of new Evolv scanners into the city’s subway systems.
