After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it's now one of the companies competing in Startup…
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September 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action
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