A local security company says artificial intelligence, or AI, helped police catch a burglary suspect this week.
As we reported on Wednesday, the Reno Police Department arrested a man for an alleged burglary at a construction site that morning.
In an exclusive with 2 News Nevada, Martin Ross Security says their technology helped law enforcement in their efforts.
The company has multiple cameras on this particular site, and they have all sorts of technology to detect suspicious behavior.
“The AI recognizes immediately that there is a human in that area, applies it to the rules, shouldn’t be a human in that area, and then it notifies by popping up an alert in our in our monitoring area in front of the operator,” said Jason Patterson, President of Martin Ross Security and Standpoint Systems, which is the company that helps with the AI.
The AI has only been in use with the cameras for a couple of years.
Before, the security company would receive several hundred reports from the surveillance cameras. However, more often than not it wouldn’t be anything more than the wind blowing or a squirrel.
Now, the AI drastically cuts down those false reports.
“It improves that margin of error by probably 90 to 95 percent based on the effort of the programming,” Patterson said.
Patterson says the use of AI has not gotten rid of any jobs, but it has just enhanced the workflow for current employees.
Especially for the communication specialist who initially sees the report. Once the specialist determines if a crime is being committed, they will then notify the dispatch station.
That’s when Martin Ross will send one of its patrols or call the police.
The security company uses multiple types of cameras.
The AirPoint models are stocked with strobe lights and a speaker system that allows an operator to talk to people. Patterson says that feature is usually 90 percent effective, but the other 10 percent is when enforcement has to be called.
This time, a much more expensive option was used.
“We can really zoom in, let’s say 1000 feet at night and capture what is happening in a scene,” Patterson said. “This represents the 360-degree portion. So, there are actually five cameras in one in this.”
Patterson says they have more than 60 units of some kind in the community, with about 300 views. He believes this gives his clients better care because it helps fill in the gaps when the patrol isn’t there.
He says the different cameras work better depending on the infrastructure of the building.
Patterson says the evidence from the cameras will be used in court testimony on this case.
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword in finance — it’s the beating heart of the next generation of trading. But here’s the truth: the smartest algorithm in the world is only as powerful as the hardware it runs on. That’s where Marlinn Group is making its mark, bringing together bleeding-edge infrastructure and proprietary AI models to power its Marlinn Aggregator Pricing Bot (MAPB).
Hardware Meets Trading Intelligence
At the core of MAPB sits a custom AI stack built on:
NVIDIA Blackwell B200 & AMD MI300X GPUs — delivering the ultra-fast compute power needed to run transformer models in real time.
32TB LPDDR6 RAM & Intel Xeon Max CPUs — enabling parallel analysis of thousands of blockchain events per second.
Sub-microsecond execution relays via EigenLayer and Flashbots — ensuring trades settle faster than the competition.
This is not abstract capability — it’s raw horsepower that directly translates into profitable trades. While Nvidia’s own stock hovers around $172–174 per share, reflecting the global demand for AI infrastructure, Marlinn is putting that hardware to work in a way few others can: turning compute into capital.
MAPB in Action: Use Cases That Matter
Predicting the Future, Not Just the Present
Through its Quantum Predictive Mempool Intelligence, MAPB forecasts upcoming mempool patterns — not just pending transactions, but likely clusters of behavior. For traders, that means seeing the market’s next move before it happens.
Cross-Chain Capital Flow Without Friction
With its Autonomous Capital Routing Engine (ACRE), MAPB pulls liquidity across multiple blockchains in real time. Zero-knowledge bridges and Layer-2 rollups ensure trades execute atomically, without the risk of slippage or failed swaps.
Gas Efficiency as an Edge
Gas wars are often the difference between profit and loss. MAPB’s Neural Gas Fee Intelligence (NGFI) analyses congestion, validator behaviour, and time-of-day cycles, recalibrating fees at millisecond latency. Traders pay less, execute faster, and keep more of their profit.
Security That Evolves With the Threats
Why This Matters for Traders
Marlinn has already demonstrated MAPB’s consistency with a record of 98.2% profitable trades, and scalability that can cover 5–7.5% of the entire decentralized market trading volume. Combined with fast revenue distribution to account holders and fully auditable on-chain records, MAPB offers not just technology — but trust.
Riyan Verma, Marlinn’s Technology Director, sums it up best:
“The extraordinary gains in AI today aren’t possible without high-throughput infrastructure. Our integration of Blackwell, MI300X, and LPDDR6 memory empowers MAPB to predict, execute, and secure trades in ways the mainstream hasn’t seen yet. This is how we turn cutting-edge technology into real, measurable advantage for traders.”
The Future of AI in Trading
For Marlinn, this isn’t about chasing hype. It’s about building the blueprint for tomorrow’s financial infrastructure — where foresight, velocity, and security define profitability. In a world where milliseconds separate winners from losers, MAPB and its AI-driven hardware backbone are empowering a new generation of traders to stay ahead of the curve.
MAPB doesn’t just detect arbitrage; it defends itself. With the Zero-Knowledge Frontrun Shield (ZK-FS), proprietary trade logic is protected from competitors, while Self-Healing Smart Contracts patch vulnerabilities in real time, keeping capital safe.
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A group of tech leaders and artificial intelligence companies announced the creation of Leading the Future (LTF), a new organization designed to, in its words, “ensure the United States remains the global leader in AI by advancing a clear, high-level policy agenda at the federal and state levels and serving as the political and policy center of gravity for the AI industry.” The industry is no longer happy to shape policy through think tanks, white papers, and voluntary commitments. It is building a political influence infrastructure.
Who Is Behind LTF
The coalition includes powerful venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, investors such as Ron Conway (one of Silicon Valley’s super angels with early investments in Facebook, Google, Airbnb and Reddit), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir cofounder and an early executive at Clarium Capital, Peter Thiel’s hedge fund), Greg Brockman (OpenAI cofounder and current president) and his wife Anna Brockman. Even though the announcement is short on specific names, it indicates the participation from leading firms, including Perplexity.
Their motivations are clear in their intent to promote policies to advance the economic benefits of the technology and oppose efforts seen as limiting and delaying its development in the US. They frame the stakes in AI as not only commercial but also geopolitical. With Washington and Beijing locked in a struggle over compute power, export controls, and data supply chains, tech leaders want a direct line into state capitals and the halls of Congress.
Earlier lobbying by the internet sector focused on shaping policy through public campaigns, portraying themselves as defenders of the users, internet freedom or innovation. They often leaned on trade associations. Differently, LTF brands itself as an independent political entity. The initiative is a well-funded, centralized advocacy effort positioned to shape the future direction of tech policy in the country. It resembles historical efforts in business, food, tobacco, pharma, and other sectors with well-coordinated lobbying and electioneering to secure favorable outcomes.
Lessons from Web 2.0
This is not the first time Silicon Valley has built influence in Washington. In the late 2000s, as regulators debated privacy, antitrust, and liability protections, internet companies expanded their lobbying spend. Google went from negligible activity in the early 2000s to being among the top corporate lobbyists by the early 2010s. Facebook followed suit, building networks of state and federal lobbyists while fighting attempts to tighten rules on data collection.
Those efforts were defensive, aimed at forestalling oversight that might slow growth. Silicon Valley’s attitude toward Washington during Web 2.0 was generally one of avoidance, with tech leaders’ preference for minimal governance and free-market growth. Most companies neglected formal lobbying until faced with scrutiny, potential regulation or in response to crises. The relationship was characterized by mutual unfamiliarity, with many in DC underestimating the tech sector’s potential impact on policy, and tech companies believing they could bypass government oversight by focusing solely on innovation.
By contrast, LTF presents itself as offensive: it wants to shape an affirmative agenda and frame the policy debate itself.
Regulatory Capture and AI
Economists and legal scholars have long warned about the dangers of industries capturing the agencies tasked with regulating them. George Stigler, in his seminal 1971 essay The Theory of Economic Regulation, argued that “as a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit”. He introduced the concept of regulatory capture and shifted the understanding of regulation from the public interest model to a rational business choice. One of his insights was that companies often prefer regulatory control over subsidies. Rules that restrict entry, shape market structure, or favor complements can create more lasting advantage than direct government handouts.
Stephen Breyer, writing in Regulation and Its Reform (1984), documented the recurring pattern of regulatory failure in America: high costs, low returns, procedural gridlock, and unpredictability. Cass Sunstein added a twist in his 1990 essay Paradoxes of the Regulatory State: sometimes well-intentioned regulation backfires, producing the opposite of its intended effect.
Silicon Valley Bank’s 2023 collapse, the second largest in U.S. history, resulted from risky management, overinvestment in long-term bonds losing value as rates rose, and a rapid $42 billion bank run. This crisis is an example of how regulatory capture and policy changes, like the post-2018 rollback of Dodd-Frank provisions, can backfire. Regulatory failures included delayed, insufficient oversight due to weakened post-2018 rules, procedural gridlock, and unpredictability.
These perspectives suggest that as AI evolves, the risk is not just over- or under-regulation, but that industry itself will be the architect of the rules. AI offers fertile ground for capture. The technology is complex, opaque, and evolving quickly. Regulators often lack the expertise or resources to challenge the claims of leading labs. This creates an asymmetry: the firms that dominate model training are also those most capable of defining the safety benchmarks, compliance metrics, and standards of responsible AI.
Money in Politics Today
The timing of LTF’s launch is no accident. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 opened the door to unlimited corporate spending on political speech through Super PACs and 501(c)(4) “social welfare” groups. These entities can raise and spend vast sums, often with limited transparency. Tech leaders are familiar with these vehicles, and crypto companies have used them aggressively in the 2024 election cycle.
By creating LTF as a political hub, the sector signals it intends to play at the same level as defense contractors, pharmaceutical giants, and oil companies. The group can funnel money into congressional races, shape ballot initiatives, and build permanent influence networks. And because AI touches multiple policy domains—national security, labor, education, healthcare—the scope of lobbying is potentially broader than any prior technology sector campaign.
The sums at stake are enormous. Training frontier models requires billions of dollars in chips and energy. Securing government contracts for AI in defense, intelligence, and healthcare could yield recurring revenue streams. In this context, spending hundreds of millions on political influence is rational, and perhaps necessary, for firms seeking to entrench their market position.
Possible Futures for AI Policy
The creation of LTF raises the question: Is AI governance going to follow a pattern of capture, or can policymakers create structures to resist it?
On one path, industry sets the rules. Companies use their clout to define the pathways that align with their business models. They shape federal preemption laws that limit state experimentation. They fund think tanks and university programs that validate their frameworks. This would mirror what Stigler described as the normal course of regulation: industries acquiring and shaping the state’s coercive power for their own benefit.
On another path, policymakers build more resilient institutions. Breyer’s framework suggests starting with clear objectives, examining alternative methods, and choosing the least intrusive regulatory form. Sunstein warns against paradoxes, where well-meaning but rigid rules lead to enforcement paralysis. Applied to AI, this means balancing innovation with safeguards, ensuring that agencies have the expertise to evaluate claims, and creating accountability mechanisms that cannot be dominated by a handful of firms.
Will AI policy become another case study in capture or a demonstration that democratic institutions can adapt to a general-purpose technology? From railroads to telecoms to energy, industries with concentrated wealth and technical expertise have usually succeeded in bending rules to their favor. But AI also raises existential concerns, from misinformation to labor disruption to military use, that broaden the coalition demanding oversight.
The launch of Leading the Future formalizes what had been implicit: AI is not just a technological race but also a contest over policy and influence. The outcome will depend on whether policymakers heed the lessons of Breyer, Stigler, and Sunstein or repeat the familiar cycle of regulation designed by and for the regulated.
Money will play a decisive role, as it always has in American politics. But the stakes in AI are larger than market share.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms higher education, the University of Hawaiʻi is launching a new systemwide office to meet the challenge and establish itself as a national leader. The UH Office of Academic Technology and Innovation (OATI) will guide the integration of emerging technologies and AI across all 10 campuses, serving as the hub for strategy, implementation and oversight in teaching, learning and operations.
Housed within the Office of the UH President, the office will be overseen by Ina Wanca, the UH Chief Academic Technology Innovation Officer. Wanca will work closely with campus leaders, ITS and the Institutional Research and Analysis Office and serve as the primary liaison between academic leadership and ITS.
OATI will support the consolidation and alignment of academic technology, advance AI adoption and transformative initiatives across the system and establish governance frameworks to ensure the responsible, ethical and equitable use of technology.
“The Office of Academic Technology and Innovation is a critical step forward in ensuring UH is not just adapting to emerging technologies but leading their thoughtful and strategic integration,” said UH President Wendy Hensel. “This office will help us realize the full potential of AI and academic innovation to support student success, faculty excellence, and operational efficiency.”
With AI adoption moving at different paces across UH’s ten campuses, OATI will create a single framework ensuring all investments, tools, and innovations drive a common vision for teaching, learning, and research.
“This new office turns that shared vision into reality,” said Ina Wanca. “By ensuring equal access to modern tools, building AI literacy for students and faculty and linking innovation to workforce readiness, we will prepare Hawaiʻi’s learners and educators to thrive in the AI era while honoring the values that define our university system.”
OATI will also support the AI Planning Group announced June 25 in developing a university-wide AI strategy aligned with institutional goals.
“With the AI Planning Group and OATI working together, we can align priorities across all campuses and move quickly from ideas to implementation,” said Kim Siegenthaler, Senior Advisor to the President.
The office will also help lead implementation of the $7.4 million, five-year subscription to EAB Navigate360 and EAB Edify, approved by the UH Board of Regents on June 16. The platforms use predictive analytics to alert faculty, advisors, and support staff at the earliest sign a student may be at risk. The systems have proven successful in closing student achievement gaps and improving retention and graduation rates.
