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Zoom and major financial firms are adopting World's 'Proof of Human' badges, powered by iris-scan verification, to combat deepfakes and AI-driven fraud in sensitive conversations.

Researchers used publicly available AI models to discover a critical zero-click, memory-corruption vulnerability in Zoom's annotation feature, allowing remote code execution on all meeting participants across all platforms. Zoom has issued fixes, but the research highlights how AI is lowering the barrier to nation-state-level exploits.

Researchers disclosed vulnerabilities in Zoom's screen-sharing annotation protocol that could allow silent device takeover; the flaws were discovered using AI models in under 20 prompts, with fixes already rolling out.

Researchers disclosed Zoom vulnerabilities that could let attackers take over devices via screen-sharing annotation, discovered using AI models in under 20 prompts. Zoom has released patches.

Zoom has become Chrome-only, meaning it no longer supports other browsers like Firefox or Safari for its web-based features.

The article highlights the growing ubiquity of AI note-taking apps that automatically record meetings and conversations, leading to pushback such as a VC changing his Zoom name to explicitly deny consent. It explores the social, legal, and practical implications of always-on recording.

Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, argues that Zoom has a massive opportunity to build an AI-first product using its vast repository of meeting videos and transcripts, potentially disrupting traditional enterprise SaaS by automating data entry and coordination.

A user successfully integrated Claude in voice mode into a Zoom meeting, where it answered questions from multiple participants without glitches, and is seeking ideas for applications of this capability.