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Aslan launches human-supervised AI undercover agents for national-security missionsAslan publicly launched after raising $20.8 million to build AI agents for national-security investigations; Axios reports that the system provides a harness for intelligence and law-enforcement models operating in underground forums, Telegram channels and other online spaces. The founder says agents remain human-supervised but can actively engage in those ecosystems and ran autonomously for 21 days in one reported case, while agencies continue testing guardrails and data handling.→Texas pauses state funding for AI-powered Flock surveillance camerasTexas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to pause spending on Flock camera systems, the Texas Tribune reported on 28 August. The state has spent at least $30 million building a network, while Flock’s AI turns captured vehicle attributes into searchable records; the order is a funding pause, not a statewide ban.→