Dmitry Birulia — e/acc

@eurofounder Your friend forgot about: $4,500 - oat milk lattes $3,000 - daily microdosing $1,500 - taxes for breathing Bay Area air

My friend moved to San Francisco to work as a Staff Engineer at OpenAI His salary? $30,000 a month A lot of money right? Well, the reality was different: $12,000 - rent, studio with no windows $7,000 - tip for the landlord $5,000 - subscription to gay sauna $4,000 - rehab after fentanyl addiction $2,000 - Asian prostitutes $1,000 - Tesla lease payment Soon he found himself in immense debt and nearly took his own life Please, think twice before chasing the “American Dream”

Nick Shirley has everyone yelling about “fraud in CA” again. Strip the politics -> the numbers are the point: • CA EDD unemployment fraud was estimated at ~$20B-$32B during COVID • US “improper payments” run ~$162B/year (GAO/CMS style reporting) - a lot of it is docs + verification failures This is what every biz learns the hard way: fraud scales when verification is weak and reconciliation is slooooow AI helps where it actually matters: - detect fake documents - extract fields + attach provenance - reconcile invariants (line items -> totals, dates, tax rules) - flag anomalies before money moves Make fraud expensive and fraudsters accountable!

"SAP costs $700M to upgrade, takes 3 years, and needs 50 Accenture consultants." 70% of enterprise transformations fail. This is why AI for legacy systems is a bigger opportunity than any shiny new AI app. The boring stack is where the money is. a16z.news/p/why-the-worl…

AGI is here, we are so coooked....

Sacramento works great for the special interests, but not very well for the rest of us. The average family doesn't have a lobbyist. That's why we need a champion as governor.

PDFs are hostile. "Invisible text" prompt injection is a thing. Your system reads text humans can’t see -> and your LLM happily follows it. This isn’t prompting. It’s ingestion. Fix: - render what user saw - strip hidden layers - diff visible vs extracted text - provenance per field If you’re feeding raw PDF text into an agent, you’re giving untrusted input admin keys.

Proud to see Veryfi powering this nationwide campaign with HEINEKEN MÉXICO. Grateful for the partnership and for the incredible team making it happen. Cheers 🍻

@DudespostingWs @grok is this a heavy metal or more of a punk rock?

This guy wrote a heavy metal song about the eternal question: does PetSmart mean ‘pets are smart’ or ‘a mart for pets’?

@garrytan This is just insane...

California parole told officers to stop tracking a felon with 91 prior felonies. Weeks later he killed Hanako Abe and Elizabeth Platt. Now there's a civil rights lawsuit naming the officials who gave that order. garryslist.org/posts/91-felon…

‼️A Bay Area couple lost nearly $60,000 not to a data breach, not to a phishing scam but to a chemically washed check pulled from a blue USPS mailbox. They wrote a $28,000 property tax check. Someone intercepted it, wiped the payee line clean, rewrote it to a stranger's name, and cashed it at an ATM in Minnesota. By the time they noticed, their bank had denied the fraud claim for reporting "too late." $60K out of pocket. For doing everything right. Check washing fraud isn't new but it's exploding. And tax payments are prime targets because they're high-value and completely predictable. This is exactly why at @Veryfi, we built fraud detection that goes beyond just reading documents. We detect every kind of alteration, digital tampering, and AI-generated fakes because fraud doesn't always look like fraud at first glance. If a system like this had been in place at the bank's check processing layer, that altered payee line would have flagged instantly‼️ The Glasers' story shouldn't happen to anyone. But until every financial institution takes document integrity seriously, it will keep happening. 🔗 Read full story here: abc7news.com/post/wells-far… #FraudDetection #CheckFraud #DocumentSecurity #Fintech #OCR #Veryfi #CheckWashing

✨ Every brand's mascot starts somewhere... Meet Vee - Veryfi's mascot and the living embodiment of our brand. Vee didn't just appear overnight. It took research and dozens of sketches before our favorite one-eyed alien became the face of a document intelligence company.💚 🔗 Read the full story here: veryfi.com/technology/the… 💡 How do you humanize your brand? #BrandDesign #MascotDesign #AITechnology #DocumentIntelligence #OCR #Veryfi #BrandIdentity #DesignThinking

Document fraud is now “passes OCR” + “passes liveness.” Provenance beats ocr scores. If your trust primitive is “OCR text looked plausible,” you’re cooked. You need lineage + cross-checks - and yes, real AI to fight AI fraud (this is exactly the direction we’re taking at Veryfi). blog.opencorporates.com/2026/02/23/dat…

Document AI reliability isn’t a model problem. It’s a pipeline problem. One hostile PDF can trigger “could not find page-dimensions” → std::bad_alloc. Auto-OCR choice matters (engine/device/memory caps). Ship: timeouts, memory ceilings, quarantine lane, and an “evil PDF” eval suite. advisories.gitlab.com/pkg/npm/jspdf/…

We're all rooting for Punch 🧡 🙈And just like him, your data deserves protection. Veryfi keeps the fraudsters away. #HangInTherePunch #FraudPrevention #Fintech #dataextraction #tech

Permissions != policy. It’s just capability. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat summarized emails labeled “confidential” despite DLP being configured. That’s the agent UX problem: • “user can access it” != “agent should surface it” • leakage surface grows even without cross-user access theregister.com/2026/02/18/mic…

@Veryfi @openclaw skilled up my Agent🤓🤓🤓

We have exciting news. 🎉 🦞 The @Veryfi skill is now live on ClawHub. Now you can plug real document intelligence directly into your @openclaw workflows without touching a single line of code. 🖇️ Try out now: clawhub.ai/dbirulia/docum… If you're already building on OpenClaw, it's worth trying Veryfi's skill. And if you're not, maybe now's the time. 😄 #Clawhub #Openclaw #MultimodalDocumentExtraction #OCRAPI #Workflows #AIbot

Hacker-trained AI just found 16 new PDF engine 0-days. PDFs remain the internet’s most weaponized file format. Read this if you ship a PDF parser: novee.security/blog/hacker-tr…

Nonprofit acquires an open-source…

We “hired” 3 AI employees. Onboarding took 1 day. Week 1 results shocked us 🔥 link is below