https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/21/y-combinator-backed-intrinsic-is-building-infrastructure-for-trust-and-safety-teams/ > A few years ago, Karine Mellata and Michael Lin met while working at Apple’s fraud engineering and algorithmic risk team. Both engineers, Mellata and Lin were involved with helping to address online abuse problems including spam, botting, account security and developer fraud for Apple’s growing customer base. > Despite their efforts to develop new models to keep up with the evolving patterns of abuse, Mellata and Lin felt that they were falling behind — and stuck rebuilding core elements of their trust and safety infrastructure.