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Akarsh Sanghi
Akarsh Sanghi is an engineer & designer born and brought up in New Delhi, India. Previously he was leading the Growth & Card product teams at N26 Bank in Berlin until August 2019. Having joined the N26 team in the early days, he was responsible for the growth of the product across European & US markets. He also helped set up a new product and engineering hub for N26 in Barcelona and led the product teams to launch N26 You & N26 Metal. Before that he worked on special projects at The Studio - a new kind of an innovation studio set up in collaboration with IDEO & Zalando in Berlin. He holds a Master's degree from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. In early 2020 he co-founded his own company with Udit Gupta and raised initial seed capital from Y Combinator.
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Brains Byte Back interviews startups, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders that tap into how our brains work. We explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better, more sustainable future for humanity. If you’re interested in ideas that push the needle, and future-proofing yourself for the new information age, join us every Friday. Brains Byte Back guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies.
In this episode of Brains Byte Back, we take a closer look at the top three AI-powered scams threatening small, mid-sized, and large businesses leading into 2026. With cyber fraud on the rise, attacks are becoming that much more sophisticated, making it harder to spot. AI tools are giving scammers new and creative ways of obtaining the info they need to do damage, using AI to impersonate employees, clone voices, and exploit rapid AI adoption.
According to recent research, 90% of U.S. companies were hit by cyber fraud in 2024, and AI-enabled attacks — including deepfakes and voice cloning — surged 118% year-over-year.
While businesses are learning how to leverage AI, attackers are becoming even quicker at weaponizing it. But we have you covered. Erick speaks with cybersecurity expert Sanny Liao (co-founder & CPO of Fable Security) to unpack:
How synthetic identities and “fake employees” infiltrate organizations — appearing on résumés, IDs, even video calls;
Why AI-driven social engineering and voice-phishing are now far more effective than legacy scams;
How insecure AI adoption is opening new vulnerabilities inside companies fast-adopting automation and code-generation tools.
Tune in to hear real-world stories and walk away with concrete steps to protect your business. It’s a 2026 wake-up call every founder, manager, and IT leader needs before “trust but verify” becomes “verify or regret.”
Find out more about Sanny Liao here.
Learn more about Fable Security here.
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