Forbes October 22, 2024
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Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency venture, Worldcoin, which scans the irises of people from around the world in exchange for a payment in crypto, is rebranding itself to just “World.” The company has shifted its strategic focus away from crypto and into human identification in a world where AI is omnipresent. Now people can scan their eyes to verify that they are in fact humans and not bots, my colleague Rich Nieva reported.
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BIG PLAYS
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once touted the AI juggernaut’s relationship with Microsoft as the “best bromance in tech.” A new report from the New York Times...