Investigation
AI writes the police report
2024Axon's Draft One generates police narratives from body-cam audio with an LLM. Civil-liberties groups warn it launders unreliable AI text into sworn legal records.
Individual
Jack Cover
TASER inventor / early collaborator
A former NASA researcher who invented the original TASER ("Tom Swift Electric Rifle") in the early 1970s. He collaborated with the Smith brothers when they founded AIR TASER in 1993 to build a compressed-nitrogen version, taking a minor equity stake and royalties.
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Companies
Incidents in their orbit
Investigation
AI ethics board resigns over Taser drones
2022After Axon announced a Taser-equipped drone concept following mass shootings, a majority of its independent AI ethics board resigned in protest.
Investigation
Trump's account bought Axon stock before ICE's $220M Taser deal
2026A federal financial-disclosure filing revealed an account in Donald Trump's name bought $1–5 million of Axon stock on February 10, 2026 — about two weeks before ICE sought roughly 17,800 Tasers in a ~$220 million solicitation. Ethics watchdogs flagged the timing; the trade was in a discretionary account managed by others, and there is no allegation that Trump directed it or knew of the coming ICE deal.