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Flock Safety offers buyouts to all 1,500 staff, deadline 2 October
The licence plate camera company, valued at $8bn, has put a voluntary exit package in front of every employee as cities cancel contracts.
Blue Voice raises $6m to put police rulebooks on officers' phones
A Harvard Law dropout has taken $6m in seed funding for an AI trained on department policies that general models cannot read. The moat is the data nobody has published.
84% of UK government tech spend goes to 150 suppliers
A Startup Coalition report says founders have stopped believing the state will buy from them. The numbers behind that, and the parts of the process that stop bids cold.
Public contract scoring doubles job-creation weighting from 10% to 20%
Bidders for UK public contracts worth £5m or more will be marked on local hiring, training and 45-day placements for young people instead of net-zero and diversity commitments. The change covers a £90bn-a-year market.