A personal experience of being scammed by a deepfake voice led Tarini Padmanabhuni to found a company called DetectifAI, which is developing AI models that can flag fake voices on smartphones in real-time. The startup is now competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt.

AI companies are in a competitive race to demonstrate their models' potential existential threats to humanity, sparking concerns about the ethics of AI development. Researchers at Meta and Google have been working on AI models that can generate realistic and coherent text, while others have been developing models that can control robots and other physical systems. Some experts believe that these advancements could lead to superintelligent machines that surpass human intelligence, posing a threat to humanity's existence.