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Why proving personhood is the new standard for identity verification

Most fraud strategies fail before a fraudster is ever detected, because they evaluate documents, rather than people.

Consider the operational reality: a customer signs up for a fintech service. Their government-issued ID clears every document check. Their selfie matches. Their name passes the database lookup. Onboarding completes.

What no one detected was that the identity didn’t belong to a person. It was assembled by generative AI in minutes — a synthetic construction engineered to pass exactly the checks that were run.

Director of Growth for Compliance Solutions at SEON.

The account sits dormant for weeks, builds behavioral credibility, then executes a scheme that costs the platform tens of thousands of pounds. Deepfake-enabled fraud alone caused more than $200 million in losses in the first quarter of last year.

This is not a stress-test scenario. Synthetic identity fraud is the operating condition for every business that onboards customers digitally. And the...

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How to Bring a Geothermal Well Back from the Dead

Geothermal company Zanskar bought a New Mexico power plant in 2024 that appeared from the outside to be failing. The shallow wells had been rapidly losing heat, and the plant was having trouble generating power as a result. Now, after drilling a new well and operating the power plant for

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Elevating the IoT: How AI is introducing a new era of connectivity

The global AI in IoT market has grown rapidly within the last year, with its value reaching $4.08 billion in 2025, and forecast to reach $6.45 billion by 2035. This progress reflects a wider industry shift, as with the rise of AI organizations are increasingly looking towards a

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London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed

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Why Your Next Trade After a Big Win Is Often the Worst

Think about the last time you booked a huge win. Now think about the trade you put on right after it. I'd bet money the second one was worse — bigger size, thinner logic, taken faster than usual. The same thing happens after a big loss. You've

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How to Bring a Geothermal Well Back from the Dead

Elevating the IoT: How AI is introducing a new era of connectivity

London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed

Why Your Next Trade After a Big Win Is Often the Worst