Privacy-preserving proof of human and identity infrastructure for the agentic web. Trusted by @Google and @Opera, Self is already serving 15M+ users worldwide.
BREAKING: Self, the identity layer for 14M+ users w/ partners incl. @Google and @opera, acquired Loam
Loam, founded by Birju Shah (ex-@Uber Head of AI), builds multi-agent systems to automate complex, high-stakes transactions, backed by @packyM, @lessin’s @slow, and @Accomplices
Self Enterprise gives payroll platforms one place to manage Self’s privacy-first identity tools.
With Pre-KYC, they can confirm workers meet basic eligibility requirements before full onboarding, reducing verification costs while keeping sensitive data private until it’s needed.
Last year, a Discord verification partner was breached, exposing 70,000 users' government IDs.
The answer can't be a new vendor to send those same documents to. Age verification should never require handing over your ID in the first place.
Self is built for this.
Discord has started rolling out Incode for age verification. The system requires users to submit a government-issued ID and a selfie to confirm their age.
According to Discord, Incode processes biometric data locally on the user’s device using on-device AI and does not
Let's try something ... how about a forum on the interent where to particpate you have to validate you are a real american with government ID to participate? ... and use your real name? voxamericanus.
California is putting AI in the hands of state and local government.
This is the start of Universal Basic Compute: widening AI access so people can share in the economy it reshapes.
UBC needs tools to verify real, eligible humans at scale. Self is building them today.
California 🤝 @AnthropicAI
We're entering a partnership to strengthen cybersecurity and provide @claudeai to state agencies — and California local governments — at a 50% discount.
The Golden State helped build Silicon Valley — and every Californian should benefit from the
Learn more about Universal Basic Compute and the role Self plays in making verified access real, the layer that lets governments and platforms hand AI to real people. ↓
Self Enterprise gives businesses one place to configure and manage Self’s privacy-first identity tools, tailored to their needs.
E-commerce platforms can protect reviews from bots and fake accounts by verifying that each reviewer is a real person, without exposing customer data.
Self Labs spent the week in DC working on Universal Basic Compute.
The mission: making sure anyone with an idea can access the AI models to build it, no matter where they start on the socioeconomic curve, and in line with the federal guidelines for model access.
Self Labs spent the week in DC working on Universal Basic Compute.
The mission: making sure anyone with an idea can access the AI models to build it, no matter where they start on the socioeconomic curve, and in line with the federal guidelines for model access.
Self Labs spent the week in DC working on Universal Basic Compute.
The mission: making sure anyone with an idea can access the AI models to build it, no matter where they start on the socioeconomic curve, and in line with the federal guidelines for model access.
This is how a great American future for model access gets built, and how one good idea becomes real economic growth.
Thank you to the @AnthropicAI policy team, @labor_attorneys, and @CommerceGov for hosting our COO Birju Shah.
Read @RegenRene's "Why We Need Universal Basic Compute" for more on the compute divide forming today, the vision for UBC, and how Self can help bring it to life.
Regulators are pushing app stores to verify users' ages before minors can access apps. 27 US AGs backed Texas's law at the Supreme Court.
The concern is real: kids are accessing content they shouldn't be.
But the answer isn't harvesting user data. Self is built for this.
The battle over age assurance in the U.S. is increasingly shifting from social media to app stores.
Attorneys general from 27 states are backing Texas' App Store Accountability Act, arguing age checks regulate commercial transactions—not speech—and strengthen parental oversight
Estonia's PM announcing government-issued AI agent IDs. Huge validation for how we have been thinking about this at Self Labs: @selfxyz agent ID as the privacy-preserving layer that complements national identity frameworks.
Today at the Eesti.ai advisory council.
I gave my approval to the council’s proposal that Estonia become the first country in the world to create a digital identity for AI agents — an AI personal identification code.
This may sound technical, but the idea is
Self Enterprise brings our identity and agentic solutions into one dashboard. Choose what your business needs and let Self handle the rest.
Online stores can run age and nationality checks at checkout without exposing user data or holding users' most sensitive information.