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Persona AI brings AI directly into the Persona identity platform. It helps teams verify identities, review cases, investigate fraud signals, and apply their own policies to make faster, more consistent decisions. Many identity decisions still need people to do the work by hand: collecting evidence, screening, flagging risk, interpreting policy and routing cases. Persona AI is built into the platform, so it works directly with your identity data, risk signals, policies and workflows.

How do fraudsters create and submit a fake selfie? Walk through the four stages step by step.

Recruiters everywhere are seeing hundreds, if not thousands, of fake candidates, and it goes well beyond AI-polished resumes. Natalie, Persona's head of talent, talks with Michael, an account executive on Persona's Workforce Identity team, about what candidate fraud looks like from the recruiter's chair, why Zoom interviews and flying people on site aren't enough, and what changed after Persona added automated identity verification to its own hiring process.

Landy Nalor of Cisco shares how organizations can verify end users' identities without having to rely on separate tools.

In the real world, attackers don't just generate a selfie, submit it, and move on. If one attempt fails, they’ll refine the image and try again. Existing datasets often fail to account for these variations, leading the researchers’ detection models to fall short in real-world scenarios. Zhaofeng Si, a PhD student at University at Buffalo who interned at Persona as a research scientist, and Saatvik Billa, an ML engineer and researcher at Persona, worked together this summer on a fraud taxonomy and a real-world selfie fraud benchmark.

Persona Research studies identity and trust. We advance methods for making online identity verification safer, fairer, and more accurate. We think this work is important because identity is fundamental to how people access services, form communities, and participate online. And we want to protect people without limiting their agency or access. Timestamps: Read more about Persona's research team, publications, and grant program: research.withpersona.com.

Academic deepfake datasets rarely static: generate an image, label it real or fake, done. Real-world fraud doesn't hold still. Zhaofeng Si, a PhD student at University at Buffalo and research scientist intern at Persona, breaks down the gap. Public academic datasets are mostly typical face swaps and diffusion-model-generated images with a fixed label. In the real world, there's an attack-and-defense loop. Fraudsters actively probe for ways to bypass detection, so defenses have to keep adapting instead of training against a static benchmark.

In this episode, we dive into the payments revolution with Daniel Lev, CEO and Co-Founder of Coinflow. Daniel brings a rare blend of expertise: he started in large-scale digital transformation at PwC, moved into product at Amount (the Chicago-based fintech unicorn), and previously co-founded and exited a Web3 sports gaming platform before launching Coinflow.

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Adam Zuckerman, Co-Founder of The Better Money Company. He was previously general counsel at Eigen Labs, a unicorn that raised over $200M from a16z crypto and others, and an attorney at Latham & Watkins, where he represented 100+ companies and VCs across the crypto and payments ecosystem. He's joined by David Chachanko, Lead, Digital Assets and Compliance at Persona, who spent over a decade in regulatory compliance, including serving as a national bank examiner with the OCC, before leading Trust Administration and Compliance Technology at BitGo Trust and later bringing that operator perspective to Persona's product team.

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Yoni Rechtman, Partner at Slow Ventures, a generalist early-stage venture firm that has deployed over $1 billion since 2011 across fintech, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy, with a portfolio that includes Airtable, Gusto, Robinhood, Venmo, Solana, and Ro. Yoni leads the firm's New York presence and joined as Partner in January 2025 after three years as Principal, following five years at Tusk Ventures where he rose from Analyst to Principal.