# Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles; plus, Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images

An episode of [TechCrunch Startup News](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1145974783), 19 Oct 2026, 7:19.

Audio: https://mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/AIRWV3835057296.mp3

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods. Also, according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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