News about deepfake

World, the project backed by Sam Altman, has rolled out biometric verification badges for Zoom enterprise users to combat AI deepfake impersonation and fraud. Its World ID for Zoom is now available in the Zoom Marketplace and compares an image captured by its iris-scanning Orb, a live selfie and the participant's video feed before displaying a Human Badge to other meeting participants. The feature had been in limited beta testing with VanEck Funds since April and is now available globally to Zoom enterprise customers. Bain Capital and Pantera Capital were named as initial design partners. The rollout follows incidents such as a 2024 case in which an Arup employee transferred about $25 million after scammers impersonated executives during a video conference, and a February incident in which suspected North Korea-linked hackers used fabricated video feeds in fake Zoom meetings.