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Deepfake Zoom Calls, Small Language Models & the $2.5M Meeting Fraud Problem | DailyCyber 298 with Yagub Rahimov

Episode Summary

Deepfakes have moved off the internet and onto your Zoom calls. This week on DailyCyber, Yagub Rahimov — Founder and CEO of Polygraf AI — joins Brandon Krieger to talk about why he bet his company on small, locally-run AI models instead of the industry's race toward bigger clouds, what his brand-new Meeting Guard product catches in real enterprise meetings, and what he thinks is missing from the policy conversation on AI-driven fraud.

Episode Notes

Deepfakes have moved off the internet and onto your Zoom calls. This week on DailyCyber, Yagub Rahimov — Founder and CEO of Polygraf AI — joins Brandon Krieger to talk about why he bet his company on small, locally-run AI models instead of the industry's race toward bigger clouds, what his brand-new Meeting Guard product catches in real enterprise meetings, and what he thinks is missing from the policy conversation on AI-driven fraud.

Topics include:

• Turning a $1.9M trading run into a hard lesson on discipline
• Why Polygraf builds Small Language Models instead of chasing large LLMs
• Real-time deepfake and fraud detection inside enterprise video meetings
• The policy solutions missing from today's AI fraud conversation
• The road from SXSW 2025 “Best in Show” to a granted patent at RSAC 2026

Guest: Yagub Rahimov — CEO and Founder, Polygraf AI
Host: Brandon Krieger — CEO & vCISO Advisor

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