> Under the US consumer watchdog's proposed settlement, Evolv will be banned from making unsupported claims about its products’ ability to detect weapons [...]

Does this mean they were allowed before?? Does a company need to be explicitly banned from making shit up in its marketing material?? Aren't there laws against this??

This is a failure of legal review of marketing materials. Every law school student or philosophy major would classify marketing materials saying their AI system could “identify all weapons” is false. It also leads to basic human instinct of overhype.