Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

It is not feasible, nor indeed ethical, to run a facial recognition system against all images on the internet.

VeryAI has raised $10 million in seed funding to develop what it calls the world’s first “Proof of Reality” platform, a system designed to verify that a person interacting online is genuinely human.

In the modern beauty industry, data-driven personalization is no longer a luxury-it is an expectation. However, building a medical-grade diagnostic tool from scratch is a monumental task, requiring ...