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Umanitek has an upgrade to its Guardian Agent that issues a verifiable, forensically defensible certificate for detected piece of content, stating whether the content is authentic or AI-manipulated. Each certificate is anchored in Umanitek’s Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG), making it independently auditable and resistant to tampering – a first for the deepfake detection space. The…
Last week, CNN covered Guardian – and the industrial-scale account impersonation crisis we’re built to solve. The Problem Has Reached Critical Mass Our advisor Laurie Segall joined CNN to discuss what’s coming in 2026: a world where nobody knows what’s real anymore. The numbers are staggering. Hundreds of millions of fake accounts created monthly on…
Two companies combining the world’s largest harmful content database with 50 million hourly social data points to combat industrialized impersonation. Zug, Switzerland, 18 December 2025 – Umanitek and LunarCrush today announced a strategic partnership with a clear mission: protect 1 billion users from fake account attacks by combining institutional-grade harmful content detection with real-time social…
Protect yourself. Protect others. Help build the safety infrastructure of the modern web. Zug, Switzerland, December 3, 2025: Today, we’re opening applications for the Umanitek Red Teaming Initiative – a global community of early adopters, technologists, creators, and online citizens who want to meaningfully shape the future of digital identity safety. Impersonation, identity fraud, and deepfakes have…
Reykjavik, Iceland (October 9, 2025) In a first-of-a-kind event hosted in Reykjavik, Umanitek AG, the Swiss-based AI company developing the largest “digital immune system” to combat harmful content and mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence, together with Videntifier, a global leader in forensic content identification, unveiled the first live demonstration of the Umanitek Guardian Agent. The system is powered by the OriginTrail decentralized knowledge network and Videntifier’s visual recognition technology.
Zug, Switzerland/Reykjavik, Iceland. August 20th, 2025. Umanitek, a Swiss AI company focused on reducing harm from AI, and Videntifier, a global leader in forensic visual content identification technologies, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at removing illegal content from the internet, such as deepfakes and child explicit sexual material (CSAM). In a major milestone, Videntifier…
Zug, Switzerland, August 12, 2025: Umanitek, a company focused on increasing trust and safety of Artificial Intelligence, today announced the appointment of Yalda Aoukar and Carolina Casas Forga to its Advisory Board. Yalda Aoukar brings her deep commitment to child protection into her new advisory role, continuing her work to ensure the safety of children in all…
Umanitek’s first product is an AI agent, umanitek Guardian, that uses the Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG), a decentralized, trusted network for organizing and tracking immutable data and allows participating organizations to keep ownership and control of their data while supporting database queries on a need-to-know basis – allowing collaboration without compromising privacy.
Umanitek AG, a Swiss-based AI company combating harmful content and the risks of artificial intelligence, has formed a world class advisory board, compiled of strategic advisors from Silicon Valley to Zurich and Singapore – Aza Raskin, Bill Tai, Joe Betts-LaCroix and Magnus Grimeland.
Chris Rynning, Chairman of Umanitek joined OriginTrail founders at On Trac(k) podcast. They discussed the vision of umanitek and the next upcoming steps to strike through harmful content online.
Zug, Switzerland (March 7, 2025) – Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the Internet, driving a historic transformation in how we engage, work, and communicate online. However, the rise of generative AI has also led to an explosion of deepfakes, hallucinating language models, and the rapid creation of untrustworthy content – threatening the foundation of authentic communication and learning. AI-generated content now dominates the internet, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish reality from fabrication.
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