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summary: "← Back to live feed · 1 stories across 1 day Consumer card issuers saw fraud detection accuracy rise by 68% during testing of a new foundation model for financial crime, while business card issuers saw a 41% increase. The system was developed by Sardine AI Labs, an applied research group that leverages data from 6.5B profiled devices and $1.8T in payments to identify fraud for card programs that lack their own historical datasets. The company is also establishing the Sardine AI Fellowship Program, providing $375,000 in total funding for up to five researchers and faculty members from US and Canadian universities. Fellows will work with internal researchers on identity matching, scaling laws, and real-time inference to improve how AI models generalize across different financial institutions."
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# Sardine Opens AI Lab and $375,000 Grant Program to Fight Fraud

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**Published:** 2026-10-02T03:54:38.000Z
**Category:** Funding
**Topics:** funding

## Summary

← Back to live feed · 1 stories across 1 day Consumer card issuers saw fraud detection accuracy rise by 68% during testing of a new foundation model for financial crime, while business card issuers saw a 41% increase\. The system was developed by Sardine AI Labs, an applied research group that leverages data from 6\.5B profiled devices and $1\.8T in payments to identify fraud for card programs that lack their own historical datasets\. The company is also establishing the Sardine AI Fellowship Program, providing $375,000 in total funding for up to five researchers and faculty members from US and Canadian universities\. Fellows will work with internal researchers on identity matching, scaling laws, and real\-time inference to improve how AI models generalize across different financial institutions\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/sardine-opens-ai-lab-and-375000-grant-program-to-fight-fraud-320901d9>)
- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/sardine-opens-ai-lab-and-375000-grant-program-to-fight-fraud-320901d9>)