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World cofounder Sam Altman

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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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 suggests the relationship between the two companies is deteriorating. For example, employees at the two companies are at odds over how much computing power OpenAI needs to be given to build the most cutting edge technologies. Additionally, Microsoft has forged ties with OpenAI’s competitors like Inflection, whose CEO Mustafa Suleyman now leads Microsoft’s consumer AI efforts.

Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post are suing AI search startup Perplexity, alleging “massive” copyright infringement, Variety reported. According to the lawsuit, the news companies sent a letter to Perplexity in July 2024 outlining the legal implications of scrapping its articles without consent and offered a licensing deal but the........

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