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Sam Altman’s eye-scanning orb startup says employees should only care about work—for the good of humanity—otherwise ‘you should just not be here’

“We work weekends, we’re always on call, and we push as hard as our circumstances allow us to,” Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania said at a January staff meeting.

Billionaire Sam Altman's Iris Orb Dream Crumbles: $240M From Khosla Ventures Fuels 1B User Hunt, But Just 2% There As Bans Mount Worldwide

Billionaire Sam Altman's Iris Orb Dream Crumbles: $240M From Khosla Ventures Fuels 1B User Hunt, But Just 2% There As Bans Mount Worldwide

Sam Altman‘s Tools for Humanity biometric verification company is hitting roadblocks on its path to global adoption, according to Business Insider.

Sam Altman And OpenAI Target $250M For Neuralink Rival Merge Labs, Escalating Billionaire Feud With Elon Musk Over Brain Implants

Sam Altman And OpenAI Target $250M For Neuralink Rival Merge Labs, Escalating Billionaire Feud With Elon Musk Over Brain Implants

Sam Altman, the OpenAI co-founder valued at the center of artificial intelligence's rapid ascent, is preparing a challenge to Elon Musk in the high-stakes brain-computer interface market. Altman is co-founding a new venture, Merge Labs, alongside Alex Blania, the chief executive of World, an iris-scanning digital ID project also backed…

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The Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin announces plans for decentralization as it expands its eye-scanning ambitions

The company released a new grants program and protocol roadmap on Wednesday.

Sam Altman’s role ‘not expected to change’ at eyeball-scanning crypto startup Worldcoin amid OpenAI drama

Altman is the chairperson and cofounder of Tools for Humanity, the organization overseeing Worldcoin.

Sam Altman's A.I.-busting crypto token Worldcoin is live. All you have to do is scan your eyeball

The launch is one of the buzziest—and weirdest—crypto releases in years.

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Secures $115M In VC, Hopes To Grow From 2M Users To Billions

Sam Altman’s crypto initiative seeks to regain the popularity of the digital currency space after the fall of FTX.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman raises $115 million for Worldcoin, the eyeball-scanning crypto project to combat AI bots

OpenAI's Sam Altman raises $115 million for Worldcoin, the eyeball-scanning crypto project to combat AI bots

Backers for Worldcoin developer Tools for Humanity include Blockchain Capital, a16z crypto, and Bain Capital Crypto

Sam Altman wants to give you crypto to scan your eyeballs. Can he get 8 billion people stare into a futuristic orb to prove they're not A.I. bots?

Sam Altman wants to give you crypto to scan your eyeballs. Can he get 8 billion people stare into a futuristic orb to prove they're not A.I. bots?

Inside the ChatGPT founder’s other venture, a crypto-powered sci-fi startup.

People Who Scanned Their Eyeballs For Crypto Feel 'Robbed' By Worldcoin

People Who Scanned Their Eyeballs For Crypto Feel 'Robbed' By Worldcoin

Worldcoin, a startup that promised cryptocurrency in exchange for scanning eyeballs, has left its user base aggrieved.

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